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MANCHESTER, NH — Former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden came to The Bookery Monday afternoon to find out what her fellow teachers wanted Vice President Joe Biden to do for education if he is elected President of the United States.
Dr. Jill Biden met with 11 educators, all members of the National Education Association (NEA) – New Hampshire, which has 17,000 members statewide.
“You may like another candidate better but you have to look at who can win,” Biden said.
Dr. Biden was graduated from the University of Delaware and then became an English teacher in a public school and at a psychiatric hospital. She earned two master’s degrees and in 2006 went back to school and earned a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware.
Seven days after the Obama inauguration, she told the New Hampshire teachers that she returned to the classroom. As Second Lady, she worked full-time as a professor at Northern Virginia Community College.
In education for more than 30 years, she said her husband is well-versed about what teachers face in the classroom each day.
The educators touched on a number of subjects including the expansion of charter schools which, Kimberly Sychterz, a teacher in the Plymouth area, said is siphoning needed dollars from her rural school district.
Sychterz said the number of charter schools has doubled since 2007. “Will your husband continue to support the expansion of charter schools?” she asked.
“No, Joe supports public education,” Dr. Biden said.
She said her state of Delaware does have charter schools but, she said, they are specific to the arts — music, theater and art — which Joe supports.
Sitting to her right was Maxine Mosley, a Manchester middle school counselor and vice president of the Manchester NEA chapter. She said she had followed Joe Biden “forever” and knows him for his work in civil rights and social justice. What she wants him to do now, she said, is bring “that justice warrior out and bring education as a social justice issue.”
When it comes to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community), teacher Patrick Cogan of ConVal School District agrees with Biden that more therapists and counselors were needed but he was looking “for a leader to show it’s acceptable.”
He said he does not doubt that Joe is a proponent for equality, in answer to a question posed by Dr. Biden.
Mosley, after the nearly hour-long meeting ended, said the educators want more funding for schools and teachers; want resources, including technology, provided to all students, no matter the zip code where the student lives; and want to know what type of person he intends to appoint to head the Department of Education.
She said the NEA would like to see its president Lilly Eskelson Garcia replace the current director, Betsy DeVos. Garcia, she said, knows every aspect of education, having started out as a lunch lady, becoming a teacher and ultimately coming to lead the NEA nationally and its 3 million members.
“He should be very specific about the kind of person he would put in there,” Mosley said.
Neither the national union nor the NH affiliate has made an endorsement for President. Mosley said there are just too many candidates at the moment.
Also meeting with Dr. Biden were Anne McQuade, a middle school English Language Learner teacher, Ashley Dion, an elementary teacher, and Benjamin Dion, a high school social studies teacher, all from Manchester; Susan Sweed, high school family and consumer science teacher from Bedford, and Diana Griffin and Muriel Hall, both retired educators.
Johanna Dickson of Hooksett, an elementary school teacher, was unable to make the meeting because she was working her second job and couldn’t find someone to replace her, Mosley said.


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Following the release of the band's latest album 'THR!!!ER' earlier this year, an EP of remixes from the record is now available digitally.
The digital version of 'R!M!X!S' is available now from,
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American Attendants End Talks Amid Push to Scrap Contract
American Airlines and the union for its 16,000 flight attendants have suspended negotiations over $230 million in cost reductions the carrier said it needs to successfully reorganize in bankruptcy.
The break comes as AMR Corp.’s American prepares for an April 23 court hearing on its request to throw out existing labor contracts and impose new terms. The airline’s pilots union said “no progress” is being made in similar talks with the carrier.
The breakdowns continue stalemates over contracts between the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier and its unions from talks that began as long ago as September 2006. Negotiations may continue through the 51-day court process to consider letting a company void existing contracts as unions seek more acceptable cuts.
“The worst nightmare for a union is to have a bankruptcy judge determine their collective-bargaining agreement terms,” Gary Chaison, a professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, said in an interview today. “This may be a bargaining ploy, but bargaining ploys are not very attractive to bankruptcy judges.”
American, the third-biggest U.S. carrier, asked the court overseeing its bankruptcy for permission to void union contracts on March 27 after failing to negotiate concessions that would pare a combined $1.25 billion from labor spending each year. The changes include eliminating 13,000 jobs.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has declined to negotiate because the concessions American wants are worth more than the $230 million value placed on them by the airline, said Leslie Mayo, a union spokeswoman.
“We’re not willing to bring anything that is undervalued to our members,” she said. “Until American is able to bring something to the table that will give us something our members will ratify, we will continue to work internally” to prepare for the legal fight over the contract rejection.
The flight attendants’ union wants American to reduce the $230 million it’s seeking, something the carrier cannot do, said Bruce Hicks, an American spokesman. The airline is seeking a 20 percent reduction in costs from each work group, the amount it determined is needed to secure competitive labor spending.
“It’s their choice,” he said of the APFA’s decision not to negotiate.
“It’s going to be risky because it’s difficult to define what good-faith bargaining is,” he said. “I don’t know if they can marshal the evidence to make that case. It’s a pretty heavy standard.”
American met briefly this week with negotiators for the Allied Pilots Association in talks that focused on two issues, Hicks said. The two sides are to meet next week to resume discussions on contract clauses that govern the number and size of aircraft that can be flown for American by regional carriers.
“There’s no real progress being made, period,” said Tom Hoban, spokesman for the pilots union. “They clearly want to go through this process of abrogating contracts. That appears to be their endgame with all three employee groups.”
American wants a $370 million annual cost reduction from pilots, and about 400 furloughs.
The carrier’s “number one goal” is to reach consensual agreements on the concessions, Hicks said.
The Transport Workers Union, the biggest labor group at American, has held talks with the carrier on an ongoing basis, said Jamie Horwitz, a TWU spokesman. American wants to cut spending among workers represented by the union by $390 million a year and eliminate more than 8,500 jobs. The union’s negotiators and local presidents will be in Dallas next week for continued work, he said.
“They’re getting to the nitty-gritty of the actual contract language now,” Horwitz said. “Before, they were discussing just broad concepts. Now they’re working on details.”
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Surveillance company Clearview AI has agreed to permanently ban most private companies from using its facial recognition service, under an Illinois court settlement that alleged the company had built its business on data taken without user consent.
Refresher: Only true pandemic doomscrollers will remember Clearview’s rise to fame in 2020, when The New York Times detailed how the company’s facial recognition program scraped sources including Facebook and Twitter to build a huge image database.
- The program with billions of faces was sold to help law enforcement, financial institutions and private clients like Bank of America and Walmart identify people, while social media giants warned Clearview to stop scraping profiles for images.
- Clearview stopped working with private companies and individuals after facing blowback in 2020, but this new ruling makes it official—the company can still work with US federal agencies and police departments outside of Illinois.
In Canada: The technology was briefly used between 2019 and 2020 by the Ontario Provincial Police, officers in Halifax and Edmonton, and the RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Crime Centre (which resulted in the successful ID and rescue of two children).
- By 2020, Clearview has stopped offering its services in Canada entirely after provincial privacy authorities launched investigations into the company.
Why it matters: Last year, Canada's Privacy Commissioner concluded found the RCMP’s use of Clearview’s technology violated the Privacy Act, but noted that establishing limits on facial recognition technology remains incomplete, as it is not subject to a clear set of rules.
Canada’s law enforcement may have to look to Illinois when implementing new oversight functions, which will aim to make sure new technologies respect individuals’ privacy rights.


The democratic “resistance” to President Donald Trump got an unwelcome shot in the arm this week at the behest of the radical left’s mainstream media cronies.
As Trump has now thrice condemned the actions of bigots and racists in Charlottesville’s Weekend War, the left has collectively rolled their eyes and attempted to ignore the President’s pleas for peace in the American society. Their hope has been to foment a rebellion among the social justice-obsessed, malleable millennials who have been seen taking selfies with toppled historical monuments this week by once again pushing the phony narrative that the President is a supreme bigot.
This shallow facade of fake news has stuck, unfortunately, as many leftists in America have taken to the streets to commit criminal acts in the name of their anti-Trump “resistance”.
Now, one state politician has made her own remarks regarding the President, and it’s incredibly unacceptable.
“A Missouri state senator said in a now-deleted Facebook post that she hopes President Donald Trump is assassinated.
“Maria Chappelle-Nadal acknowledged on Thursday that she wrote a post which read: ‘I hope Trump is assassinated!’
“She made the comment in an exchange with a left-wing activist who claimed that his cousin is a Secret Service agent.
“Chappelle-Nadal confirmed to a reporter with St. Louis TV station KMOX that she posted the comment.
“’I put something up on my personal Facebook page and it has now been deleted,’ she said.”
We somehow doubt that Chappelle-Nadal’s half-hearted apology will be enough to save her job.
This is the unfortunate truth of the modern American world this week, as the mainstream media continues to push the nation toward a New Civil War.
Beginning in early 2017, as celebrities and pundits began normalizing the idea of Trump’s assassination, the radical left rose to the occasion. Despicable democrats such as James T. Hodgkinson then sprung into action on these debutantes’ cues, firing the first shots of this New Civil War in June of 2017.


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On Saturday, Lebanon announced it had formed a new government ending the political deadlock of 10 months during which violence from a spillover from the Syria civil war worsened the instability within the country.
The government has been operated by a caretaker government since Najib Mikati the former Prime Minister resigned last March as the parties aligned with the movement of the Hezbollah and the rival Sunni-led bloc pursued a struggle for power that was exacerbated by their support for opposite sides in the nearly three year civil war in Syria.
On television, Tammam Salam the new Prime Minister declared that a new government had been formed in the name of national interest.
Salam said he had hoped that the new government would allow the country to have new presidential elections prior to Michel Suleiman’s mandate ended in May, as well as parliamentary polls that had been postponed in 2013 because of the political impasse.
Parliament designated the lawmaker who is Sunni as the prime minister back in April of 2013. However, he has not been able to form a coalition government for many months due the bitter rivalries between the March 8 bloc, which is Hezbollah, dominated and the March 14 group, led by the country’s Sunni Future Party.
Amongst the highest posts that were announced was Gebran Bassil the former Energy Minister will be the foreign minister. Ali Hassan Khalil, the former health minister will take over the finance portfolio and Nouhad Machnouk was named the interior minister.
Salam’s new cabinet has 14 members and united members of the rival political groups.
Numerous challenges confront the Salam government including the deteriorating security in the country and the upcoming elections for the presidency scheduled for May 25.
The decree appointing the new president Salam and his Cabinet of 24 was issued following talks between Salam, Michel Sleiman the President and Nabih Berri the Parliament Speaker at the Baabda Palace.
Salam is a self-avowed centrist and was appointed in early April of 2013 following a falling out amongst the ministers leading to the resignation of Najib Mikati the former Prime Minister.

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ESD was founded in 1998 to address the challenges encountered in large, complex systems such as energy, transportation and health care delivery. These systems involve not only technology, but also people and their needs and behaviors. As a result, successful design and operation require an interdisciplinary approach composed of engineering, management and social science. ESD brings together engineers, managers and social scientists who apply their expertise and ideas to those large systems, seeking to solve the most difficult, complex problems in the world.
“Part of ESD’s strategic plan was to develop a journal or book series,” says Robert Prior, executive editor at MIT Press and editor of the book series. “ESD was unique among universities and wanted a way to export the ideas.”
“We needed a way to explain what engineering systems is about,” says Institute Professor Joel Moses, chair of the book series editorial board.
Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World, by Olivier L. de Weck, Daniel Roos and Christopher L. Magee, “is the anchor book for the series,” says co-author de Weck, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems.
“It’s the first book [of the series] people should read. It explains what engineering systems is and gives a framework for thinking about sociotechnical engineering,” he says.
“Chapter four of our book covers the lifecycle properties of systems, in terms of flexibility, reliability, evolvability,” de Weck continues. The other book currently available, Flexibility in Engineering Design, by Richard de Neufville and Stefan Scholtes, answers the question of how to design systems when you don’t know what the future holds, de Weck says.
Two books will complete the initial set of four:
Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety, by Nancy G. Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems, will be available soon. It offers a new framework and way of thinking about safety, de Weck says. In complex systems, he says, dysfunctional interactions lead to accidents, rather than a simple cascade of usually mechanical failures.
Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications, by Steven D. Eppinger, professor of management science and engineering systems, and Tyson R. Browning, due out next spring, presents a network modeling approach to developing and understanding complex systems.
The book series editorial board includes individuals from outside MIT, representing Stanford, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon University and other institutions, Prior says. And MIT Press will be “looking for suitable manuscripts from anywhere in the world.”
“There are plenty of engineering publishers, but none were focused on combining the disciplines of engineering, management and social science,” Prior says. “It’s exciting for MIT Press to have this connection to the Institute.”


Several Iranian diplomats and officials threatened submitting their resignations in solidarity with Foreign Minister Mohamed Javad Zarif, who stepped down on Monday.
In a report on Tuesday, Fars news agency said several senior officials from the ministry are determined to submit collective resignations, hours after Zarif declared his resignation.
In response to the officials’ threat, Zarif commented saying “All brothers and sisters in the Foreign Ministry and its representatives should resume their work and step back from this,” Fars reported.
In related news, Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iranian Parliament, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, said the committee will hold an urgent session to tackle Zarif’s resignation. He also indicated conflicts between Zarif and several officials, according to Tasnim news agency.


Male pattern hair loss (MPHL) is on the rise and scientists are linking it to increased consumption of sugary liquids. According to research findings, the phenomenon is the most common form of hair loss in men, affecting around 30-50 per cent of men by age 50.
According to Medical News Today, recent studies suggest that the rate of MPHL is on the rise and a survey by Chinese researchers found that the condition affected 21.3 per cent of men in 2010 and 27.5 per cent in 2021.
The research, Medical News Today reports, nutrition plays an important role in MPHL.
“Some studies suggest that glucose metabolism may influence hair loss. Further research into the link between MPHL and sugar consumption could inform lifestyle choices for men at risk of MPHL,” the report says.
In the recent past, researchers from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, examined the link between sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) consumption and MPHL. In their findings, the “higher consumption of SSB correlates to a higher risk of MPHL.”
Interviewed by Medical News Today, Dr Ken L. Williams Jr, who is the founder of Orange County Hair Restoration in Irvine, California, and the author of Hair Transplant 360 – Follicular Unit Extraction, observed:
“Traditionally, most physicians or hair restoration surgeons understand that nutrients and diet play a key role in the overall health and well-being of our patients. Exercise, avoidance of tobacco products and illicit drugs, good nutrition and a balanced diet are key to our patient’s health and longevity.”
The findings of the study were published in Nutrients.
The researchers recruited 1,028 college students and teachers with an average age of 27.8 years from 31 provinces in China. Participants received a survey in which they filled information about their: basic socio-demographic information, hair status, dietary intake, lifestyle and psychological status.
The sugar-sweetened beverage consumption was determined from responses to the 15-item Beverage Intake Questionnaire, which examined their consumption of beverages in the past month. Sugar-sweetened beverages included: sweetened juice beverages, soft drinks, energy and sports drinks, sweetened milk, sweetened tea and coffee.
Overall, 57.6 per cent of participants reported MPHL, whereas the rest did not.
The researchers found that individuals with MPHL were more likely to: be older, be current or former smokers, have a lower education level, engage in less physical activity, have a shorter sleep duration, have experienced severe anxiety or PTSD, have a positive family history of MPHL, have MPHL-related conditions and have dyed, permed, bleached or relaxed hair.
They further found that those with MPHL consumed more deep-fried food, sugar and honey, sweets and ice cream, and fewer vegetables than those without the condition.
People with MPHL also consumed an average of 4.3 litres of sugar-sweetened beverages per week compared to just 2.5 litres among those without the condition.
“They further found that disease history influenced the link between SSB intake and MPHL. They also noted a link between the frequency of SSB intake and anxiety disorder and anxiety disorder and MPHL,” Medical News Today report.
The researchers noted that the association between SSB consumption and MPHL remained even after adjusting for possible confounders including sociodemographic factors, dietary intake and psychological status.
When asked how SSB consumption may influence MPHL, Dr Ai Zhao, an assistant professor of Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University said that “higher sugar consumption increases blood sugar concentration, which triggers polyol pathways, which convert glucose to other sugars.”
Dr Ai Zhao explained, “In vitro and vivo studies show that this process reduces the amount of glucose in the outer parts of hair follicles, which may lead to MPHL. She added that sugar intake is often accompanied by excessive lipid intake, which is also linked to MPHL.”
Dr Zhao outlined results of previous studies have shown that high sugar intake is linked to mental health problems.
One meta-analysis, for example, found that those who drank the equivalent of three cans of cola per day have a 25 per cent higher risk of depression than those who don’t consume sugary beverages.
Dr Zhao noted that their findings are limited as they relied on self-reported data as opposed to clinical diagnoses. She also noted they did not gather data regarding the consumption of other sweetened products and they could not distinguish the severity of MPHL.
Dr George Cotsarelis, a professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania and director at the University of Pennsylvania Hair and Scalp Clinics, not involved in the study, is quoted by Medical News Today:
“The study only shows a correlation between sugary drinks and baldness. I doubt this is a real correlation because it is hard to imagine how sugary drinks could impact baldness. Furthermore, among the men they studied, the bald group had a higher percentage of men with a family history of baldness.”
“This means that the incidence of baldness would be higher in that group, so perhaps by chance, the sugary group had more men with baldness. I guess there is also a chance that the genes involved in baldness cause one to drink more sugary drinks. However, in general, I will not change the way I practice or the advice I give to patients based on this study,” he added.
Dr Williams noted that the study is detailed and well-designed. However, he added that it doesn’t necessarily recommend eliminating all sugar-containing beverages.
“It concludes with the notion that advancing common sense prevails in matters involving overall health and nutrition. I recommend always having a balanced diet and consuming healthy food groups and nutritional sources. Avoid tobacco products drugs, and excessive alcohol intake,” he pointed out.
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Brooklyn Center presents Chaka Khan
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Brooklyn Center presents Patti Austin: Ella Now and Then
GRAMMY® Award-winning jazz singer Patti Austin in a centennial celebration of the First Lady of Song
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Mars City Design has raised $30,000 on Kickstarter to fund the next stage of a plan to 3D print a full-scale Mars human habitation prototype in the Mojave Desert, southern California.
The money will be spent hosting a workshop in September at the University of Southern California to select three designs from 25 finalists selected earlier this year by a panel of space experts. These designs will then be finalised.
The startup lead by Vera Mulyani, who holds a master’s degree in architecture, landscape and urban design from the Ecole d’Architecture de Nantes, plans to print three prototypes at the Reaction Research Society’s testing facility within the next three years.
According to the organisation’s website, Mars City Design’s mission is to design the blueprint for sustainable cities on Mars. The organisation was born from the vision of Mulyani, who always dreamt of becoming an architect of Mars.
Founded in Silicon Beach in Los Angeles, California, Mars City Design has become the action step to realising not just the exploration of Mars, but making it a second home for humans.
Mulyani explained: “It is not enough to just travel to Mars and survive, now we must develop a way in which we can sustainably live and love on Mars. It is essential that we call on a new generation of thinkers and innovators to make this a reality.”
The programme follows NASA’s own 3D printed habitat competition that took place last year, that architects such as Foster+Partners created proposals for. The design competition was part of a larger, multi-phase 3D-printed Habitat Challenge to advance the additive construction technology needed to create sustainable housing solutions for Earth and beyond.
It is not enough to just travel to Mars and survive, now we must develop a way in which we can sustainably live and love on Mars. It is essential that we call on a new generation of thinkers and innovators to make this a reality.– Vera Mulyani, Mars City Design


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Seventh Wave - Only the Beginning(From the Album Psi Fi). Formed by Kieran O'Connor and Ken Elliott after the dissolution of the British progressive band.
Album by Seventh Wave. Return to Foreverland. Loved by You. Only the Beginning. Star Palace of the Sombre Warrior.
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Seventh Wave was a British psychedelic and progressive rock duo formed in the mid-1970s. The band was formed by Ken Elliot (keyboards, vocals) and Kieran O'Connor (percussion), both of whom had been members of earlier progressive rock groups, Second Hand and Chillum. Joined by other musicians, including Pete Lemer, Hugh Banton (organist of Van der Graaf Generator), Steve Cook, Brian Gould, Tony Elliott, Pepi Lemer, Rob Elliott, for their second album, Psi-Fi (1975), the band enjoyed a brief success, but broke up after the USA tour to promote that album. Kieran O'Connor continued to perform in blues-rock bands, but died in the 1980s. Ken Elliot went on to write the theme tunes to ITV's lunchtime news bulletin First Report and BBC2's Out of Court. Things to Come (Album).
Psi-Fi (CD, Album, RE, RM). Esoteric Recordings. Psi-Fi (LP, Album, Promo).
A leap forward from their debut, this album shows the duo taking on extended song structures and a more varied and much improved vocal style. At times the material sounds like a precursor to the Buggles, as in the slick synths and harmonized vocals of the opening track, "Return to Foreverland. Their better material comes late in the album, though, with Elliot's writhing, serpentine sibilance in "Astral Animal," and the bubbling synth and Spanish percussion of the instrumental "El Tooto.
Unlike the previous Seventh Wave album, Psi-Fi saw keyboard player, vocalist Ken Elliott and percussionist Kieran O’Connor were joined in the studio by such guests as keyboard player HUGH BANTON (of Van Der Graaf Generator), vocalists ROB ELLIOTT and PEPI LEMER and bass guitarist STEVE COOK. Psi-Fi was another ground-breaking album and was critically acclaimed upon its release, being very much ahead of its time, proving inspirational to a new generation of musicians.
Listen to Psi-Fi online and get recommendations on similar music. Album descriptions on Last.
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Seventh Wave - Psi-Fi. Bitrate (quality): 192256320.
|1||Return To Foreverland||3:47|
|2||Roads To Rome||3:12|
|4||Loved By You||2:45|
|5||Only The Beginning||7:58|
|10||Star Palace Of The Sombre Warrior||6:25|
- Design [Sleeve] – John Pasche
- Drums – Kieran O'Connor
- Electric Bass, Double Bass – Steve Cook (tracks: 6, 8)
- Engineer [Console Control] – Neil Richmond
- Keyboards – Ken Elliott
- Keyboards [Crumar Stringman] – Brian Gould (tracks: 10)
- Organ – Brian Gould (tracks: 10), Hugh Banton (tracks: 3)
- Percussion – Ken Elliott
- Percussion [Bongos] – Tony Elliott (tracks: 5)
- Percussion [Multi-percussion] – Kieran O'Connor, Tony Utah* (tracks: 9)
- Producer – Neil Richmond
- Remastered By – Yoshiro Kuzumaki
- Sequenced By – Chris Amson (tracks: 3)
- Synthesizer – Ken Elliott
- Synthesizer [Arp, Melatron] – Hugh Banton (tracks: 3)
- Synthesizer [Arp, Rmi, Crumar Piano] – Pete Lemer* (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
- Vocals – Ken Elliott, Kieran O'Connor, Pepi Lemer (tracks: 3), Rob Elliott (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9), Tony Elliott (tracks: 5)
- Written-By – Ken Elliott
NotesComes in a CD sized papersleeve album replica, with Obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 4571136371389
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Chilly nights call for ramen! 🍜 head to newly opened @sanpouteiny for their delicious ramen, originating from the niigata region in japan. must try their signature niboshi shoyu ramen. 👍 tonkotsu is super popular in nyc, but what is your favorite type of ramen? #ramen#ramenlover#shoyuramen
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National margarita day is tomorrow! we love everything a margarita represents in a glass. the smell of freshly squeezed limes and the lingering smoke of our wood-fired oven will transport you to a campfire on the beach. it’s like a vacation from your vacation—that little moment where the sky is still and the waves are rolling in slowly. need a staycation? see you tomorrow 😊
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Cheese + potato = the perfect pairogi.
homemade mini pierogis stuffed with a blend of @alouettecheese’s garlic and herb spreadable cheese and mashed potatoes. my grandma’s recipe (on my website) typically uses cream cheese & potato filling so this is similar but adds more flavor!! #ad
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Our fire-roasted eggs with spicy tomato, chile de arbol, olives & capers are a sure-fire way to spice up your weekend. link in bio to book a table for weekend brunch sat-sun from 10am-2pm. #ettarestaurant
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You know i love smoothies (especially healthy, plant-based ones) and let me tell you, this one is so rich and decadent, you will feel like you’re doing something dangerous.
it’s chocolate and cherry and ... spinach? so good. it’s from the new book plant powered health. check out my blog for the full recipe and to preorder the book. it teaches you how to eat plant-based in a healthy way.
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What’s for dinner? try raiding your home bar! this time around, i dusted off my dry vermouth, that little green bottle that usually only gets love when you’re making martinis or manhattans. 🍸🥃 vermouth can be used like white wine in your recipes, but imo does even more heavy lifting. vermouth brings complexity, fuller flavor, and an herbal extra-something — ie: a great compliment to a sweet, buttery-in-taste-but-not-ingredient, somewhat grassy dish like this, vermouth garlic scallops with fennel and castelvetrano olives. another bonus: vermouth keeps a lot longer than wine.
first, marinate the scallops in vermouth, olive oil, salt, and garlic for a couple hours. pat them dry and sear them off in olive oil. then deglaze the pan with even more vermouth and fresh-squeezed orange juice. saute some fennel until just tender, then toss in some juicy castelvetranos.
i’m curious — do you c***k open the liquor cabinet when you’re cooking? what do you make?
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Physiotherapy is a highly beneficial treatment that helps people eliminate the pain caused by injuries, disorders, and severe diseases. Professional physiotherapists are responsible for providing gradual exercises and methods to restore mobility and movement in the affected part of your body. According to Kasra Mirhosseini, an experienced and trusted physiotherapist in North York, “with physiotherapy services, you will get the parts of your body that hurt treated and move another step towards improving your health.” To achieve this goal, they should pass additional training to get information about how the body works and how medically certified procedures can help solve your problem. It should be noted that physiotherapy treatments can potentially prevent further injuries, especially on the previously strained body part. Some useful information is provided in this article to introduce the most significant benefits of physiotherapy treatments.
Benefits of Physiotherapy
Eliminating Your Pain & Discomfort: Most people who suffer from arthritis, tendonitis, or muscle strain don’t know that physiotherapy can reduce their pain with therapeutic techniques and exercises. These beneficial therapies can potentially help in alleviating the pain successfully.
Help Patients to Avoid Surgery: As everyone knows, today, we all live in tough pandemic times, and we all prefer not to visit a hospital and undergo various surgeries. However, in some cases, surgery is the last resort to preserve your overall health. Professional physiotherapists can provide useful exercises to manage and heal your conditions in the initial stages. Besides, regular physiotherapy exercises are highly recommended in pre and post-rehabilitation programs to solve the complications that might be occurred during your surgery.
Improving Your Overall Strength: As mentioned above, physiotherapy treatments are so beneficial in reducing the pain during or after surgery. It should be noted that they also aid in improving your overall strength because they involve specific exercises that help in the cumulative coordination of your body.
Reducing The Use of Medication: According to professional health experts, using different medications can cause some negative side effects that can impact your overall health. However, in some severe conditions, patients should take special medication as an essential part of their treatments; taking painkillers after surgeries to relieve your pain should be reduced. Physiotherapy treatments can be considered an appropriate choice to relieve your pain and reduce the side effects caused by overusing over-the-counter medication.
Boosting the Patients’ Cardiovascular Function: As usual. Those who have undergone post-stroke surgeries need extreme care and a recovery program. Luckily, physiotherapy treatment involves beneficial techniques and methods to help patients regain their movement and balance after experiencing a post-heart stroke.
Managing Sports-Related Injuries: As everyone knows, those interested in playing sports are at a high risk of injuries. Physiotherapists can potentially provide practical exercises to help athletes with their injuries.
Staying Fit at All Ages: Generally, people like to look younger, and becoming old is not pleasant because it can bring certain complications that cause difficulties performing simple daily routines. If you or your old ones face some old age problems like arthritis, sciatica, neck or back pain, make an appointment to visit a dedicated physiotherapist to get rid of your pain and manage your condition.

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Rishi Sunak is now the most popular Chancellor of the Exchequer, since Gordon Brown, apparently. With over 9 million on the payroll and more supported by unemployment pay, the social media modelled Chancellor, is now tipped for the top job, if Boris Johnson slips up.
This week, the Chancellor announced his "Plan for Jobs in 2020". How the government will boost job creation in the UK and more importantly, stop the cash being splashed, on the extremely expensive furlough scheme.
The scheme is due to end in October. The Prime Minister has warned, it is a scheme which cannot go on forever. When it ends, the government fears a wave of redundancies, just before Christmas. Hence, the "Plan for Jobs". The plan includes a VAT cut for the hospitality sector, "eat out to help out" vouchers for families, a cut in stamp duty, a new job retention scheme, a grant for green home spending, plus bonuses for apprenticeships and youth work placement.
Together the schemes will cost a further £30 billion pounds, on top of the £120 billion of special measures already in place. Tucked away in the small print, the Treasury glossed over a further £33 billion of spending on the NHS, including £15 billion to be spent on PPE and £10 billion on "test and trace".
£30 billion here, £30 billion there, and soon you are spending real money. According to the IFS, government spending in the current financial year will be a staggering £350 billion. The deficit will push towards 20% of GDP before too long. But is the money all well spent?
The VAT cut is described as manna from heaven by the hospitality sector. At a cost of £4 billion, the cut may well be extended into Easter next year. The Stamp Duty cut is welcomed by the housing sector. Buyers will save an average £5,000 per transaction.
A boost to the green economy always welcome, a stimulus to apprenticeships and youth employment always a valiant effort. The voucher scheme, to boost the restaurant trade, comes at a time when most people are still uncomfortable about eating out. Jenny Harries, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer is uncomfortable when they do.
People should reduce the risk of dying, by slimming down and losing weight, the main medical message. The scheme is expected to cost about £500 million pounds. Chump change, crumbs from the Treasury table, in the grand scheme of things.
The main criticism is of the job retention scheme. Businesses who bring back workers from furlough will be paid a £1000 bonus per employee if they remain in work into next year. If all furloughed employees are brought back into work, this could cost the Treasury £9 billion.
Companies will receive the bonus, even if employees have already returned to work. Many will return to work with or without the scheme. For those set to lose their jobs, the bonus will be of little value. Economists call this a "dead weight scheme".
HMRC are unimpressed. Jim Harra, Chief Executive, in a written letter to the Chancellor, reports "I am unable to reach a view, this represents value for money, to the standards expected, by the "Managing Public Money" guidelines.
The scheme must have focus grouped well, especially among the Tory back benches. The money would have been better spent on extending the furlough scheme, to the end of the year, in sectors like hospitality which have been badly hit.
The Chancellor explained there is more to be announced in the Autumn Statement ... time enough to let the markets run and measure the return to work momentum in an economy badly damaged by shut down. Time then to ensure further spending plans represent value for money to the standards expected. The Chancellor's rating may have taken a hit on Instagram, the clock is Tik Toking on any leadership move ...
Joe Biden makes a move ...
Joe Biden emerged from the bunker this week. The candidate announced a $700 billion dollar plan to "build back better". The plan, to create jobs in the USA and invest in new technologies.
Battery technology, artificial intelligence, biotech and clean energy will feature. Digging for coal and lagging the roof will not.
Five million new jobs will be created by investing in domestic production and substitution of foreign supply chains. Corporation tax will increase to fund part of the spending plans. An increase in the minimum wage expected, an increase in union access will also form part of the plan.
"Trump has simply given up" says Biden, "American families are paying the price of White House incompetence."
Biden is ahead in the polls. Top voter concerns are Coronavirus, Racial Injustice and Foreign Policy. Hardly Trump strong points. Mike Pence is making the hard yards on campaigning at the moment. Speculation is rising Trump may quit the race.
In a piece in the Evening Standard this week, Jon Sopel North American Editor for the BBC writes ...
"It is striking, just how many well connected people have told me, that if the polls stay as bad as they are for Trump right now, then come Labour Day (September 7th), they wouldn’t be surprised if he quit the Presidential race."
Why would Trump quit? In the President’s limited lexicon, no word is more insulting than loser. The argument goes, that if he can’t win, he will find a way to extract himself from defeat. Supporters are becoming frustrated by his self defeating conduct. This week the President announced he has no interest in a phase two trade deal with China.
"I don't think about it now" Trump told reporters on Air Force One this week. "They could have stopped the plague, they could have stopped it, they didn't stop it."
Joe Biden is ahead in the polls. His campaign strategy is primarily, to do next to nothing and say next to nothing. His guidelines, part philosopher Boethius, “Stay silent and they will think you are wise” and part assassins code “There is no need to murder someone, who is committing suicide".
The Samaritans guidelines tell us, the majority of people who feel suicidal, do not actually want to die, they do not want to live the life they have. It may well be the President no longer wishes to live life in the White House. Hopes of a Nobel peace prize dashed, defeat in the polls in November best avoided, political suicide offers a plausible way out ...
That's all for this week! Have a great, safe, week-end, eat out, help out, work out, wear a mask, with a smile ...
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Trade unions have written to the Modi government, flagging salary delays and layoffs during the lockdown period. RSS backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Left backed CITU, in their separate letters, have cited instances from all across the country to raise the concern of workers in different sectors facing hardships due to lockdown announced by the government in view of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Union government had on March 20 issued directive/advisories to employers of both private and public sector establishments asking them to avoid layoffs and pay wages to workers including contractual/casual workers. In their letters, trade unions have highlighted gross violations of the government notice.
In its letter addressed to the prime minister, the BMS has said that small businesses and MSMEs have landed in big trouble. Most of them find themselves short of funds to pay their workers and sustain. The government should develop channels to take care of these workers as well. Post lockdown, relief packages should be announced for MSMEs and other small businesses that are not part of this congregation.
BMS letter has alleged that although some state governments have announced relief packages, but barring a few like Uttar Pradesh, Gujrat, Kerala and Tripura most of the states have not yet transferred any amount. In Tamil Nadu the situation is worse.
Almost 10% of the population is being pushed towards starvation. Workers are forced to refuge their lives in Shylock that will ruin their life quality forever. It is emergency like situation and the Centre must intervene.
The RSS backed trade union has suggested that once the pandemic is over, lock down must be lifted in phase wise manner, giving enough time and confidence for industries and workers to return to work.
A tripartite/tripartite plus committee should be formed to monitor and direct the economic revival and re-growth. Left backed trade union, CITU has shot a letter to Secretary, Labour & Employment ministry.
It has said has cited specific instances of violations of Government directive by way of termination of employment of contract/casual workers in Banks in West Bengal, Border Road Organisation and Hydro Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir, nonpayment of wages in Jute Mills and Tea Gardens in West Bengal.


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The End of the Run for the Yuan?
In a few years’ time, it is possible that we could well see the Chinese yuan return to the kind of relative obscurity (at least by large country standards) that it so richly deserves -- an emerging markets version of the Japanese yen.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the yuan has been one of the biggest economic issues to come out of the emerging universe in the past decade. It is difficult to think of another topic that cuts across so many different lines including politics, market investment strategy, structural development debates and international relations – starting with fears that China was unfairly distorting global trade and growth through a massively undervalued exchange rate, and ending with the idea that the yuan is now destined to topple the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Attention has been based on four key macro trends: an extraordinarily high trade surplus, rising global market share in virtually every export category, steady, almost guaranteed trend yuan appreciation, and the rapid policy-led opening of offshore trading.
The fun is now winding down. Each of these trends is now likely coming to an end – which, in turn, implies the end of the Great Yuan Trade.
This doesn’t just mean the end of one-way yuan appreciation – although that change is indeed looming on the horizon – but also the end of the Chinese currency as a an important topic that dominates the attention of US congressmen, global reserve managers, academics and conspiracy theorists everywhere.
The End of Surpluses and Market Share
The bottom line is simple: China’s current account surplus is slowly but surely disappearing. It is already well under the “Geithner threshold” of 4 percent of GDP that constitutes a structural imbalance according to US Treasury guidelines, with no real sign of any turnaround over the past 12 months. We understand that past performance is no guarantee of future trends, but there are at least three good arguments why the trade balance is not going to rebound sharply any time soon.
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First, there has been nothing close to a global recovery that would lead to sustained strong double-digit trend volume export growth to developed markets, and we don’t expect such a vibrant scenario going forward.
Second, there is little indication from China’s macro data that excess domestic capacity is pushing the surplus higher from the supply side – and this is after many quarters of policy tightening and weak demand.
Third, with local unskilled wages exploding upwards, China is already losing market share in traditional manufacturing export industries such as toys, textiles, footwear and sporting goods. Mainland firms are still gaining ground in higher value-added sectors such as IT electronics, of course, but the days of China eating everyone’s lunch are clearly over.
We do not expect the trade balance to go careening into serious deficit, however, for the simple reason that the government is not easing policy today and shows no interest in stimulating the economy a la 2008-09. Indeed, we expect the most import-intensive parts of local demand such as construction and infrastructure spending to remain flattish for much of 2012.
All of which means that the political noise over Chinese external imbalances, unfair currency practices and exchange rate manipulation will probably continue to fade from here. The yuan is no longer under major strengthening pressure and it should come as no surprise that the exchange rate has traded essentially flat against the US dollar since the beginning of the year, with an unprecedented magnitude of two-way trade as well. We don’t mean to say that the yuan can’t appreciate moderately. But it is increasingly clear that this is no longer a unidirectional trade with guaranteed returns.
Could we actually see the currency depreciate sharply from here, as some bears would have it? Not really. To begin with, as we argue, domestic demand is simply not strong enough to push the trade balance into sizeable deficit any time soon.
Moreover, the popular idea that China is threatened with a potential flood of portfolio capital outflows is sorely misguided. Any top-down measure of implied “hot money” inflows shows that there haven’t actually been any over the past few years, at least not on a sustained basis in any significant magnitude (Chart 4 above). Which leaves relatively little to go flooding back out again. And need we even mention the US$3 trillion-plus pile of official FX reserves?
The bottom line is that (i) there’s precious little chance that the yuan will be anything but a heavily managed currency going forward, and (ii) it is likely to be far more range-bound as well – some upside, perhaps some downside, but no real drama.
The end of liberalization?
We would feel differently, of course, if we thought that China was on the verge of dramatic capital account liberalization that would open the doors to far larger portfolio movements. This would not only make exchange rate trading a more exciting proposition, it could also push the yuan onto the global stage in a much bigger way and provoke a longer-term shake up of international portfolios.
There’s just one problem: it’s not happening.
There are three key points to make here. The first is that despite the rapid development of the offshore Hong Kong “CNH” market over the past few years, there has been no corresponding opening of the onshore market.
How can we tell? As regular readers know, there is a quick and easy way to measure the effectiveness of cross-border flows in any economy: simply compare domestic short-term interest rates with the interest rate implied in the internationally traded FX forward market.
Chart 5 below shows the behavior of the two rates series for China’s more open neighbors, including Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. As you can see, they are extremely close at any point in time, indicating a high degree of capital mobility and thus close arbitrage.
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Although Hong Kong deposits may sound like a significant figure, this is still a tiny, even imperceptible drop in the bucket in terms of global financial markets.
Nor, finally, do we expect the government to follow through to the logical conclusion of its offshore yuan experiment, i.e., the integration of local and overseas markets through a more radical liberalization in the near future – or anything even remotely close to it. Despite some of the political rhetoric coming from leadership circles, it’s not just that they “won’t” open the capital account ... in a very real sense they can’t, at least not fast enough to matter.
For more than two decades the entire philosophy of monetary management and financial system development has been based on a closed-economy system: maintaining low and stable interest rates without having to worry about external arbitrage; breezily adopting economic stimulus when needed without concern about underlying banking system asset quality; propping up banks with historically high NPL ratios and fixed-cost pricing, and keeping iron-clad control over the value of the exchange rate. All of these only work when foreign portfolio funds cannot influence asset prices, and when locals have nowhere else to go
And although it may be very much in China’s theoretical interest to move to a more open and market-driven system over time, it is certainly not in policymakers’ interest to jump-start the reform process at a time when the economy is overextended with credit, banks are facing another wave of bad loans and the government is in the middle of trying to slow the economy without causing an undue shake-out in sensitive property markets.
That is, they are bound to get around to external liberalization at some point, but it certainly isn’t happening today and won’t really be happening tomorrow. So in the meantime get ready for the new, more obscure Chinese yuan.
(Jonathan Anderson, formerly the chief emerging markets economist for UBS, is now an independent emerging markets consultant.)


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The secret at the heart of Rhonda Byrne's mega-selling DVD and book "The Secret" is what Byrne and her two dozen co-authors say is a universal principle called the law of attraction.
According to Byrne, your thoughts are made of energy, and they work like a magnet. If you think about, expect and "visualize" good things happening in your life, such as finding a new job or meeting a new love, you'll attract them, and they'll happen. If, on the other hand, you dwell on negative thoughts, bad things will result.
Apparently, Byrne has done a lot of visualizing.
Her DVD, released a year ago, has sold 1.5 million copies. And demand for her book, published last November by Atria Books and given a big boost in February by Oprah Winfrey, has been so great that there are now 3,750,000 copies in print. Indeed, it's become one of the fastest-selling self-help books in history.
Yet, as Byrne acknowledges, this idea - that you can improve your life by thinking positively and by visualizing what you want and how you're going to get it - has been around a long time. Over the millennia, saints, poets, self-help gurus, songwriters, political leaders, movie characters and even hall of fame basketball players have espoused this thinking.
Here are some examples from history, near and distant
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
-- from the poem "Invictus" by English poet William E. Henley (1949-1903)
"Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it. ... Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. AS YOU READ - SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY."
--Napoleon Hill in his 1937 best seller "Think and Grow Rich!"
"When I want you in my arms,/When I want you and all your charms,/Whenever I want you, all I have to do is/Dream, dream, dream, dream."
--from the song "All I Have To Do Is Dream" by Boudleaux Bryant, recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1958
"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
-- Willa Cather in her 1925 novel "The Professor's House"
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! ... A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement."
-- Norman Vincent Peale in his classic 1956 best seller "The Power of Positive Thinking."
A man reaps what he sows."
-- St. Paul in Galatians 6:7
"Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated worlds of potential that lie within us. Through conscience, we can come in contact with universal laws or principles. ... Combined with self-awareness, these two endowments empower us to write our own script."
-- Stephen R. Covey in his 1989 best seller "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
"When there was nothing for dinner at our house, which was the usual case, I would actually go to bed early so I could dream about the food that wasn't on the table. ... I would create ten-course meals in my mind and then drool over them in my sleep. Sometimes my dreams convinced my aching stomach that it was full. "
- Basketball superstar Isiah Thomas from his 2001 book "The Fundamentals: Eight Plays for Winning the Games of Business and Life"
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
-- Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman politician (340-273 B.C.)
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Principles behind `The Secret'
In "The Secret," Rhonda Byrne writes that our lives are controlled by the law of attraction. Here are some excerpts:
"The law of attraction says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you."
"Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think, those thoughts are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source. And that source is You."
"Your life is a mirror of the dominant thoughts you think."
"Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours. ... How do you get yourself to a point of believing? Start make-believing. Be like a child, and make-believe. Act as if you have it already. As you make-believe, you will begin to believe you have received."
"Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally."
"Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind."
"You get to fill the blackboard of your life with whatever you want."
YOUR THOUGHTS: Are you a `Secret' admirer or do you think `The Secret' is more hype than help? Log into to chicagotribune.com/thesecret and tell us what you think.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION AND RELATED ART STATEMENT
The invention relates to a mass spectrometer, more specifically, a mass spectrometer having a flight space wherein ions to be analyzed make orbital movements or reciprocal movements on a substantially same orbit.
In a Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (hereinafter referred to as “TOFMS”), generally, ions accelerated by an electric field are introduced into a flight space having no electric field nor magnetic field, and various ions are separated by a mass number according to a flight time until the ions reach a detector. A difference in the flight time between two different ions having different mass numbers increases as the flight time increases. Accordingly, a long flight distance is preferable in order to improve resolution in the mass number. However, it is generally difficult to provide a long flight distance linearly due to limitation in a size of a device. Conventionally, various structures have been proposed to effectively increase the flight distance.
For example, in a device disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 11-297267, an oval orbit is formed using a plurality of troidal type sector-formed electric fields, and ions repeatedly fly around the oval orbit to increase the flight distance. In a device disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 11-135061, a closed orbit is formed in an 8-character shape to increase the flight distance. In these TOFMSs, a flight time, from when an ion starts from an ion source to when the ion arrives at a detector after flying around the orbit for predetermined times, is measured. A mass number of the ion is determined according to the flight time. The flight time increases as the number (orbital flight number) of flying around the orbit increases. Accordingly, generally, resolution in the mass number is improved as the orbital flight number increases.
In the TOFMSs, generally, the detector starts collecting data of a detection signal (ion strength signal) when the ions start from the ion source to obtain a relationship between the flight time and the ion strength signal based on the data. However, in the TOFMSs having the structures described above, when the flight number of the ions increases, the flight time becomes longer in proportion thereto. Accordingly, it is necessary to collect a large amount of the data, thereby requiring a large capacity for storing the data.
In view of the problems described above, the present invention has been made, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mass spectrometer having an orbit in a flight space so that ions repeatedly fly along the orbit several times, wherein a capacity for storing collected data is reduced.
- SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Further objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description of the invention.
In order to attain the objects described above, according to the present invention, a mass spectrometer includes:
- a) a flight control device for allowing ions started from an ion source to repeatedly fly along a predetermined orbit in a flight space for predetermined times;
- b) a detecting device for detecting the ions after the ions repeatedly fly along the orbit for the predetermined times; and
- c) a data processing device starting collecting ion strength data detected by the detecting device during the ions flying along the orbit; when the ions leave the orbit and move toward the detecting device; or when it is assumed to be one of the above-mentioned time points.
Here, the predetermined orbit is arranged in the flight space to obtain a long flight distance in the narrow flight space, and may have any shape as far as the ions repeatedly fly along substantially the same orbit. For example, the predetermined orbit may be formed in a fly-around orbit such as a circular shape, oval shape, and 8-character shape; a turning orbit such as a spiral shape; or a reciprocal path such as a straight line or curved line.
Incidentally, the ion source is not limited to a device for generating the ions from a molecule or an atom, and may be any device as far as the device includes means for providing kinetic energy to the ions so that the ions are introduced into the flight space.
In the mass spectrometer according to the present invention, with the control of the flight-control device, the ions started from the ion source are guided to be placed on the orbit. After the ions fly along the orbit several times, the ions leave the orbit and head toward the detector. The detector outputs the ion strength signal corresponding to the number of the ions arrived thereat. In a conventional mass spectrometer, the detector starts collecting the ion strength data when the ions start from the ion source. However, in the mass spectrometer according to the present invention, the data processing device-starts collecting the ion strength data during the ions flying along the orbit or when the ions leave the orbit and head toward the detector. In order to calculate an entire flight time of the ions, a time from when the ions start form the ion source to when collection of the ion strength data starts is separately measured, and the measured time and the collected data are processed together.
When a type of ion to be analyzed is known or can be estimated with high accuracy, it is possible to estimate a time when the ions from the ion source arrive in the vicinity of a predetermined position on the orbit, or a time when the ions from the ion source reach a position where the ions leave from the orbit. Therefore, it is possible to start collection of the ion strength data at a time point during the ions flying along the orbit, or at a time point when the ions leave the orbit and head toward the detector.
A non-destructive type detector may be provided at a predetermined position along the flight orbit of the ions for detecting passage of the ions, and collection of the ion strength data starts according to an output of the detector. Accordingly, instead of the estimation described above, the collection of the ion strength data starts at a time point when the ions actually arrive at a predetermined position.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
According to the mass spectrometer of the invention, it is not necessary to collect the data during a large portion of the period when the detecting signal has no change until the ions arrive at the detector. Accordingly, as compared with a case where the data are collected from the time point when the ions are launched, it is possible to greatly reduce a memory area for storing the collected data, thereby reducing cost of the data processing device. With the reduced data quantity, it is also possible to reduce a load of processing data. Of course, even if the data quantity is reduced as described above, the accuracy and sensitivity of the analysis are not impaired.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an essential part of a mass spectrometer according to an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing a flight condition of ions and a process content associated therewith; and
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
FIG. 3 is a graph showing an example of a fluctuating state of a detected signal obtained from the mass spectrometer according to the embodiment of the invention.
Hereunder, embodiments of the present invention will be explained with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a mass spectrometer according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, an ion source 1, a flight space 2, and an ion detector 3 are disposed in a vacuum chamber (not shown).
The ion source 1 ionizes molecules to be analyzed, and an ionizing method is not limited to a specific one. For example, when the mass spectrometer of the invention is used for GC/MS, the ion source 1 may ionize gas molecules with electron ionization method or chemical ionization method. When the mass spectrometer is used for LC/MS, the ion source 1 may ionize liquid molecules with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization method or electrospray ionization method. When molecules to be analyzed are macromolecules such as a protein, matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) method may be used.
The flight space 2 includes therein guide electrodes 22 for allowing the ions to fly along a substantially circular orbit A, and gate electrodes 21 for allowing the ions introduced into the flight space 2 to be placed on the orbit A or allowing the ions flying on the orbit A to leave therefrom. Incidentally, in the present embodiment, the orbit A is formed in a circular shape, and is not limited thereto. In addition to an oval or an 8-character shape, the orbit A may have other shapes. Further, the orbit need not be the completely same shape, and may be a swiveling orbit having a gradually shifted position such as a spiral shape and a reciprocating orbit.
The ion detector 3 includes, for example, a photoelectron multiplier for outputting a signal (ion strength signal) corresponding to the number or quantity of the incident ions to a data processing portion 6. The data processing portion 6 is embodied by carrying out a predetermined processing program on, for example, a personal computer. Based on the ion strength signal, a mass spectrum with an abscissa axis representing the mass number and a vertical axis representing the ion intensity is obtained, and a qualitative analysis or a quantitative analysis is carried out based on the mass spectrum. The control portion 5 properly controls the ion source 1 and the electrodes 21 and 22 in the flight space 2 for performing the mass spectrometry.
Next, a characteristic operation of the mass spectrometer will be explained with reference to FIG. 2. The ion source 1 provides kinetic energy to the ions to be analyzed under the control of the control portion 5. Thus, the ions are launched from the ion source 1 to start flying (ion launch). When the data processing portion 6 receives an ion launch signal from the control portion 5, the data processing portion 6 starts measuring a time. The ions from the ion source 1 enter the flight space 2 and reach the gate electrodes 21. A distance of a flight path (incident orbit) from the ion source 1 to the gate electrodes 21 is represented as Lin. The gate electrodes 21 place the ions on the orbit A (enter orbit), and the guide electrodes 22 allow the ions to fly on the orbit A. The orbital flight number is controlled by the control portion 5. During the flight of the ions on the orbit A, the time measurement is continued.
It is possible to estimate the mass number of the ions to be analyzed with high accuracy, and also possible to calculate a flight speed based on the estimation. Therefore, a timing for changing a voltage applied to the gate electrodes 21 is estimated beforehand as an elapsed time from the ion launch time, so that the ions leave the orbit A after the desired orbital flight number. Specifically, in a case that the desired number of the orbital flights is n, it is necessary to change the voltage applied to the gate electrodes 21 after (n−1) orbital flights. Also, even if the ions have the same mass number, it is necessary to take into consideration a displacement in the starting position and time-based jitter due to a difference in kinetic energy. In view of the above considerations, the timing Tg for changing the voltage applied to the gate electrodes 21 is calculated beforehand, and the control portion 5 is set to change the voltage applied to the gate electrodes 21 at the timing Tg.
Through the control of the controlling portion 5, after the ions to be analyzed circle for the desired orbital flight number, the ions depart from the orbit A when the ions pass through the gate electrodes 21 to proceed to the ion detector 3. When the voltage applied to the gate electrodes 21 is changed, the data processing portion 6 starts storing the detected data obtained by digitizing the detected signal from the ion detector 3 in a data memory 61. In other words, collection of the detected data starts at the timing Tg. The ions actually arrive at the ion detector 3 after the ions passing through the gate electrodes 21 fly along a launch orbit, i.e. a distance Lout. Therefore, the detected signal at the ion detector 3 starts changing shortly after the voltage applied to the gate electrodes 21 is changed (refer to FIG. 3).
A proportion of the launch orbit after the ions depart from the orbit A is small relative to the whole orbit starting from the ion source 1 to the ion detector 3. Also, the proportion decreases as the orbital flight number increases. That is, since the data collection starts from the timing Tg as described above, it is possible to reduce the data quantity to be collected as compared with a case where the data collection starts from the ion launch time point.
Incidentally, in the embodiment, the start timing of the detected data collection is estimated based on the flight position of the ions. Instead of the estimation, passage of the ions may be actually detected to set the start timing of the detected data collection. Specifically, a detector 23 called a non-destructive ion type detector may be disposed adjacent to the gate electrodes 21 for outputting an electric signal corresponding to a quantity of the passing ions, i.e. charged particles, through electromagnetic induction. When the detector 23 detects the passage of the ions departed from the orbit A, the detected data collection is started. Thus, even if the mass number of the ions to be analyzed is not known, it is possible to start the data collection at a suitable time during the ion flight.
Incidentally, the above-explained embodiment is just an example according to the present invention, and any modification may be possible within a scope of the subject matter of the invention.
The disclosure of Japanese Patent Application No. 2003-349174, filed on Oct. 8, 2003, is incorporated in the application.
While the invention has been explained with reference to the specific embodiments of the invention, the explanation is illustrative and the invention is limited only by the appended claims.


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North Korea may carry out more than one nuclear test, experts sayBy Jo He-rim
Published : Oct. 23, 2022 - 14:55
North Korea could carry out consecutive nuclear weapons tests, experts say, as intelligence authorities warn of the rising possibility of Pyongyang conducting the first test of its kind in five years.
“It is likely that they need several tests to meet the requirements of their ambitious nuclear weapons program, which has tactical nuclear weapons, intermediate range and intercontinental ballistic missiles," Olli Heinonen, former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Voice of America, in an article released on Saturday.
"They have probably more than one type of nuclear warhead, which all need to be tested,” Heinonen added.
Predicting Pyongyang's nuclear provocation is imminent, Seoul and Washington are gearing up for response measures. Last week, a high-ranking official at Seoul's presidential office said the office is "in 24-hour standby mode," and that it is preparing a detailed plan to handle the potential test.
South Korea’s spy agency had said in late September that North Korea may conduct a seventh nuclear test after China’s party congress ends in October and before the US midterm elections in November.
In a closed-door briefing to the parliamentary intelligence committee, South Korea's National Intelligence Service delivered its forecast that Pyongyang is likely to carry out the nuclear test between Oct. 16 to Nov. 7 -- a period that encompasses the start of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th congress and before the US midterm elections slated for Nov. 8.
David Albright, the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, also agreed with South Korean and American intelligence agencies’ assessments that North Korea is "ready to test" its nuclear weapons.
“It’s consistent with what the South Korean and US intelligences are saying that North Korea is ready to test," Albright was quoted as saying by VOA.
“If it's a high yield test, like 100, 150 kilotons or more, then they're working on developing to stage thermonuclear weapons that can be delivered by a missile. And they're probably need multiple tests that reach that point where they could actually put it on a ballistic missile," Albright said.
If it is a lower yield of some 10, 20, 30 or 40 kilotons, the purpose could either be for tactical weapons or for strategic weapons, he added.
In the last nuclear test carried out by Pyongyang in 2017, the explosion at the Punggye-ri test site had a force observed between 100 to 370 kilotons. A 100-kiloton bomb is six times more powerful than the one the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
While these kinds of meetings could have led to negotiations or concessions in the old days, it's now leading to stronger military alliances against North Korea, Albright said, citing how South Korea and the US have expressed their commitment for a strong alliance.
The North Korean regime has been ratcheting up its nuclear rhetoric in recent months, introducing a new law to renew its nuclear doctrine and declaring itself as a nuclear-armed state.
On Sept. 9, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced that the North’s status as a nuclear weapons state “has now become irreversible,” and that it would never give up its nukes. The regime has also been boasting its advancement in operating tactical nuclear weapons.
In a report by Beyond Parallel on Oct. 20, no new activity was observed at Tunnel No. 3 of the North's Punggye-ri nuclear test site, confirming the US’ and South Korea’s assessment that Pyongyang is finished with all of the preparations needed at the tunnel. Beyond Parallel is an analytic project under the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonprofit think tank.
The institute said that the tunnel No. 3 is where the envisioned nuclear test would take place.
By Jo He-rim (firstname.lastname@example.org)
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. economy appeared fragmented into pockets of strength and weakness, but, in general, economic activity continues to expand, according to the latest Federal Reserve 'Beige Book' survey of current economic conditions released on Thursday. Four of the twelve Fed districts reported that growth had firmed in late September and early October, while two districts - Philadelphia and Dallas - reporting activity had "cooled." Consumer spending increased in a number of regions, although auto and home-related sales were sluggish across much of the country. Factory conditions "generally held up well," the Fed said.
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13. Deeya Chopra & Ritchie Mehta
Deeya Chopra, TV actress Roshni Chopra’s sister who is primarily known for her work in shows like “Left Right Left” and “Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein” tied the knot with her longtime partner, Ritchie Mehta on 27 November in Delhi. The two got engaged in April this year.
14. Megha Gupta & Siddhant Karnick
The television heartthrob, who wooed the audience with his charm as Ranaji on period love drama “Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani,” has got married to love of his live “Dream Girl” fame Megha Gupta in a hush hush ceremony in Mumbai on August 16. They opted for a court marriage as Megha lost her father just last month. However, Siddhant and Megha plan to host a big celebration sometime later.


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In this week, I've had more than a little satisfaction in movies. As I continue the recovery after my fractured shoulder surgery I find myself with the perfect set up for movie viewing. I have to sit (or lie) in my bed six times a day for an hour and a half with a prescribed, rented, high tech, ice machine. Here are two really good recovery movies.
First, a completely satisfying and highly recommendable portrait of Dr. Robert Kearns, the true inventor of the intermittent wiper blade: Flash of Genius. I loved the long walk on this movie from Dr. Kearn's "ah ha!" of an idea to create the "blinking eye" wiper, to his final presentation of the facts in Federal Patent Court. I enjoy Greg Kinnear as an actor, and this might be my vision of his finest portrayal. Kinnear is only slightly endearing in this case, but so fully dedicated and willing to be this man who fought the cheating-because-they can giants of Detroit. Watching with my 13 year old son gave me the pleasure of talking with him about what we might give up when we dedicate ourselves to the service of an ideal. In Flash of Genius, Dr. Kearns may have lost some, but we all gain, when one of us is willing to go the distance for what truly ethical and right, regardless of the recovery.
The second film took me completely by surprise. Rachel Getting Married, is the view of the wedding week with the central character, Kym (who is in recovery) and her working-oh-so-hard-to-function-in-spite-of family. I knew almost nothing about the movie, except that it's up for an academy award, Jonathan Demme directed, and Anne Hathaway stars without lipstick. It's not the easiest movie to watch. The way it's shot I felt at times like I wanted to sit further and further away, like I was getting too close to the family and the drama. But I wanted more and more. Debra Winger plays Kym and Rachel's rather removed mother in a performance I found painfully dichotomous. I hated her distant yet proximate relationship to her daughters. (Really hated) And at the same time, I wanted to see more of her and understand how she managed to live so cut off from truth. Bill Irwin, as dad, is a marvelous portrait of dad, constantly rewinding the unraveling edges.
There is this brilliant moment when Demme has Kym's character very literally drive into a Y/why (?), that provokes such understanding of her character and desperation to be clear and cleared, that it took a while for me to release the deep breath I was holding for her.
Living through the wedding with Kym, while she struggles to hang on to her 9 months of clean, is worth every minute of difficulty you might find as you seek the redemption the whole family requires.
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If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember blackouts from the bad old days of ESB strikes. Different areas of the land would take it in turn to haul out the candles or the camping lanterns. Night-time travelling in built-up areas became a high-risk business whenever you were in an area without power.
The Kirkos Ensemble is borrowing the word for a new series of concerts it’s planning to give in complete darkness – or whatever level of darkness can be achieved when you take into account the regulations for the illumination of exit signs, and the lighting needed for the performers to read the music.
Kirkos began life as a student ensemble specialising in contemporary music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Now that its students are no longer students, the plan is to transform it into a regular new music group, although regular doesn’t seem quite the right description for its new project.
The three late-night Blackout programmes will each be performed twice, on a Friday and a Saturday, on May 8th and 9th, June 12th and 13th, and July 17th and 18th, in the group's alma mater on Westland Row. Each programme is built around a central work: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Steve Reich's Different Trains, and Harry Patch, a new work by Kirkos co-director Sebastian Adams.
Messiaen's quartet was famously written and first performed in a prisoner of war camp during the second World War. In Different Trains, Steve Reich remembers the trains in which he travelled across the US between divorced parents and the very different trains taking fellow Jews across Europe in the 1940s. And Harry Patch is named after the longest-surviving first World War veteran, who believed "war is not worth one life".
Each work will be presented in the context of pieces specially written as a response by Kevin Volans, Raymond Deane, Roger Doyle, Gráinne Mulvey, Ed Bennett, Seán Clancy, Tom Lane and Robert Coleman.
Darkness is only one novel element of the “immersive, experiential and multisensory evening” that Kirkos are planning. They’ve also enlisted the pop-up culinary skills of Gruel Guerrilla, which will create menus to complement each programme “using ingredients that thrive and grow in darkness”.
The new project has been supported by a crowdfunding campaign. There are more details at fundit.ie/project/blackout.
Crowdfunding is a modern twist on the venerable tradition of publication by subscription, which composers and others used for centuries. I came across an unusual instance this week, through Jane Chapman's new CD of William Hamilton Bird's The Oriental Miscellany, which will be reviewed in The Ticket on Friday. Bird used the subscription model for his harpsichord arrangements of Indian music which were published in Kolkata in 1789.
Back in the 1930s, Artur Schnabel’s pioneering project to record all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas was seen as such a risk that it was set up on a subscription model. And the same applied to the first complete set of Sibelius’s symphonies and the first large-scale recording of the songs of Hugo Wolf.
The subscription idea turned up briefly in relation to opera in Dublin in the early 1960s. My predecessor as music critic of this newspaper, Charles Acton, told me that when he suggested to the Dublin Grand Opera Society that they should put on Britten's Peter Grimes, Bill O'Kelly of the society replied that if an audience of 500 could be guaranteed, he would do it. Only 30-odd people would guarantee to purchase tickets, so one of the great landmarks of 20th-century opera had to wait until 1990 for a Dublin staging.
Opera of a completely different kind featured on Dublin's streets over the weekend, when Wide Open Opera and Dumbworld presented Things We Throw Away, five short operas by Brian Irvine, as part of Dublin City Council's new festival Musictown.
I went to the performance at the junction of Clarendon Row and South King Street on Saturday, where two large loudspeakers, carrying the singers’ amplified voices and the pre-recorded RTÉ Concert Orchestra, were placed against the wall of St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre.
A public street with pedestrians passing around and sometimes through the performance space is not exactly an easy spot for pop-up opera. Street noise fluctuates enough for a satisfactory volume to be difficult to arrive at, and the sweet point between unpleasantly loud and not quite clear enough is almost impossible to maintain.
It was interesting to see the variety of responses to subjects that ranged from a banana seller (with a dancing banana chorus) to an eruption of violence between an elderly couple using walking aids, and a drunken duo in a pub.
Some people sampled the show for the briefest of moments, and then, as if they’d just encountered the worst of smells, turned and walked on.
Others stopped and within a moment their faces lit up with surprise and delight. Phones were out, arms stretched to their limits, vantage points sought. Children seemed to be enchanted at the oddness of it all, seeing it as a kind of busking they’d never come across before. And the fact there were bananas there for the asking added to the attraction.
There were no bananas on offer at the Irish Chamber Orchestra's latest outing under Jörg Widmann at the RDS on Thursday. But Widmann's own music includes lots of unorthodox gestures, such as string players' bows slicing the air to make the sound of wind in his Versuch über die Fuge (Attempt at a Fugue) and morphing effects in his Sphinx Sayings and Riddle Canons between voice, clarinet and piano (often played on the outside of the case as well as on the innards).
Unforgettable in these performances was the crystalline perfection of soprano Claron McFadden.
Framing Widmann's own pieces were high-octane, edge-of-the-seat performances of Mozart (Don Giovanni Overture and the Adagio and Fugue in C minor), and Mendelssohn's Reformation symphony, complete with a serpent reinforcing the double bassoon line, as Mendelssohn specified. This, I suspect, is the first Irish outing in modern times for that peculiar-sounding, peculiarly shaped, obsolete wind instrument.


A special screening of the upcoming Hindi film ‘Jersey’ was hosted in Mumbai last night. Several celebrities marked their presence as they watched Shahid Kapoor’s new film. Farah Khan, Kartik Aaryan, Shanaya Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Ishaan Khatter and Kriti Sanon were spotted arriving at the theatre.
Shahid Kapoor’s new film ‘Jersey’ is the remake of a Telugu film of the same name. Jersey is a sports drama film also starring Mrunal Thakur and Pankaj Kapur. It is releasing in theatres on 22nd April.


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This comes after the sector expanded by 14.3% YoY in December.
The Singapore manufacturing sector was better than expected in December as it was up 14.3% YoY, bringing the full-year growth to 7.3% YoY in 2020, according to a report by OCBC Treasury Research.
“The fortuitous combination of work-from-home arrangements, accelerated adoption of digital and e-commerce platforms, and global semiconductor demand to support 5G products and solutions, amongst others, amidst the global lockdown period was essentially a life-saver,” the report stated.
Excluding biomedical outputs, industrial production also surged for the second consecutive month by 19.8% YoY.
The electronics cluster grew the most by 41.8% YoY over the same period, led by a 51% rise in semiconductors due to 5G demand and a low base from a year ago.
Meanwhile, the biomedical manufacturing cluster remained volatile as its December output contracted 13.2% YoY due to lower production of biological products, but for the full year it still recorded a 23.7% YoY growth for the cluster.
The transport engineering cluster also contracted 31.5% YoY in December due to a 30.8% decline in marine & offshore engineering, and a 41.8% decline in aerospace segments. This is expected to persist.
According to the report, however, the base effects will not be so favourable looking ahead and 2021 manufacturing growth may moderate to around 3 to 4% YoY.
Whilst electronics and precision engineering clusters may continue to benefit from the above drivers and ongoing global supply chain shifts, the aerospace and marine & offshore segments may remain muted for a prolonged period of time given that international borders remain closed and the oil and gas market remains soft.
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