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The Dark Meadow, a slash-based adventure game akin to Infinity Blade in both gamestyle and visual quality, has been released by Phospher Games Studio and is now available from the app store.
The Dark Meadow Pros:
- Beautiful graphics with great lighting and terrific textures
- Atmospheric soundtrack and nice voicework
- Familiar combat controls make taking on beasts a breeze
- Upgradeable items and a variety of enemies to use them on
- GameCenter integration for achievements
The Dark Meadow Cons:
- Cut scenes do not allow skipping
- Too much grinding, combat gets repetitive
- Lack of a map makes finding your way very confusing
Swapping Infinity Blade's third-person perspective for a first-person viewpoint, you are an anonymous patient with a heavily-clouded memory that leaves you unsure of why you are shuffling around the halls of a psychiatric hospital, fighting off evil beings with a variety of weaponry. You do receive some cryptic messages relayed through a mysterious elderly man who you meet early on, though he is quickly relegated to communicating via intercom while you are in patient rooms. As you make your way through the building, you also pick up details and clues to the muddy backstory through minor exploratory opportunities like finding newspaper clippings or bulletin board posts, though the bulk of the gameplay is spent in combat along the narrow hallways. Creepy foes appear at length, giving you the opportunity to take aim with a crossbow and put a few arrows into their grotesque bodies from a distance. Once the gap between the two parties closes, you'll switch to a melee weapon, using on-screen finger swipes to mimic swordplay in an effort to banish the baddies to the fiery depths to which they belong.
Much like Infinity Blade, you also have a dodge and shield ability to defend against attacks, which become quite necessary as several of the ghouls hock poisonous loogies at you. Additionally, gold and XP are earned for kills, and bags of gold can be found in various locations throughout the building, most notably in anything that can be opened (cabinets, cupboards, drawers, fire extinguisher cases). This gold is used to purchase equipment upgrades and strengthen your abilities for future battle through amulets and the like. The XP refreshes your health and gives you points to apply to various attributes, such as melee and ranged attacks, health, defense, and more.
Graphically, The Dark Meadow approaches its aforementioned predecessor when it comes to visual details. There is a great deal of creepy atmosphere throughout, enhanced by lighting effects and great textures that give the surroundings a realistic feel. Collectible jewels stand out among the dank earth tones, and minor glints of light also offer clues to areas worth examining. The UI is minimalist, with a single icon at the screen top to access the game's menu. When in combat, the 2 dodge buttons and shield button adorn the screen bottom, with health bars for you and your foe at the screen top. The color of the foe's bar is tough to see, so it's not always clear how close they are to death. The soundtrack offers atmospheric noises to create tension and fear, while sound effects make the combat feel fairly authentic. The voice acting is good and it helps to move the story along in an interesting way. Controls are intuitive, using drag-and-release mechanics with the crossbow and swipes for melee. Tapping on green indicators allows you to move within the gaming environment and open doors. Swiping the screen allows you to pan 360 degrees, as well as look up and down, tapping on various unmarked objects to pick them up or open them. The dodge ability didn't always seem as responsive as we'd hoped, leaving us open to attack despite hitting the corner buttons in plenty of time.
There were a number of items that we did find frustrating, though. One of the first we noticed is that you pretty much cannot skip cutscenes or the opening sequence, which is fine for your first exposure to it, but annoying when you relaunch the game again and again. Another is the game break that occurs after defeating an enemy, which offers a Combat Summary of gold and XP earned. It pulls us right out of the game, denying us the opportunity to get immersed in the experience. This is especially annoying when coupled with the replaying the same combat sequence over and over again as you pass certain points in the hallways. You may fight a couple of demons as you work toward one end of a hall, only to have to backtrack and fight enemies all over again on the way back. It makes exploration difficult and time-consuming. The lack of any type of map also makes finding your way around very confusing, leaving us feeling like we were spending a lot of time grinding without making any real progress. Death also didn't seem to really dole out any punishment, as we would simply reawaken from the first room and move forward again in a confusing and combat-laden path.
Replay value is good if you enjoyed the experience the first time around, but it seemed to get repetitive too quickly and we got bored with the murky story before long. There are a number of achievements to earn, but the lack of feedback regarding our progress in completing them was disappointing, especially since most involved achieving a certain number of a variety of actions. A universal app for $5.99, The Dark Meadow is an interesting idea that just doesn't strike the proper chord, relegating it to a somewhat depressing 3.5-Dimple score.
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This application is a division of Ser. No. 09/831,244, filed Jul. 2, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,657,720, which is the national stage of PCT/AU00/01058, filed Sep. 6, 2000.
This invention relates to spectrometry instrumentation in general and in particular examples to fluorescence, phosphorescence and luminescence spectrophotometry.
A fluorescence spectrophotometer usually comprises a flash light source, an excitation monochromator or filter, a sample cell containing a sample to be analysed, an emission monochromator or filter, a photodetector and signal processing electronics. A specific wavelength of light from the flash source, as selected by the excitation monochromator or filter, is directed into the sample cell and resultant fluorescence light from the sample enters the emission monochromator or filter. A specific wavelength of the fluorescence light, as selected by the emission monochromatolr or filter, is directed onto the photodetector to produce an electrical signal corresponding to the intensity of the fluorescent light. Such an instrument may be arranged to make a fluorescence, phosphorescence or luminescence measurement. Fluorescence measurements relate to light which is emitted virtually immediately by a sample upon its exposure to the excitation light, whereas phosphorescence measurements relate to the light emitted from the sample a short characteristic time after its exposure to the excitation light. Luminescence measurements are taken by measuring the emitted light from a sample without exposing the sample to excitation light. Such measurements are used to characterise substances, with fluorescence measurements in particular having wide application in the biotechnical field for characterising DNA and other proteins, for example using fluorofors.
It is known in spectrometry instruments in general, and in spectrophotometers for fluorescence, phosphorescence and luminescence measurements, to provide exchangeable accessories. Generally these may provide different sample presentation facilities, for example a liquid sample presentation accessory may be exchanged for one which provides for presentation of a solid state sample. Different accessories may also provide for temperature control of samples via Peltier, Dewar or other cryostat devices, successive feeding of multiple samples to a reading location, or multiple sample carriers such as a well plate and reader therefor.
In order not to compromise test results, it is important that the exchangeable accessories for a spectrometer be repeatably and accurately locatable on the instrument. Prior art arrangements for doing this, which involve screw threaded attachment of one part to another, generally do not facilitate rapid exchange of one accessory for another.
As described above, the capability to make phosphorescence measurements (that is, phosphorescence emission intensity versus time) is included in some fluorescence spectrophotometers. To collect phosphorescence intensity versus time data that results from a short pulse of excitation light, it is necessary to repetitively measure the emission intensity at a time short enough to adequately define the relationship. The capturing of a data point can be done relatively quickly via a sample and hold circuit, however the measurement and digitisation of that data point typically takes a reasonable length of time. Such data conversion often takes longer than the required interval between successive measured points. By way of example, adequate definition of the emission time relationship may require measurement of the emission intensity at 1 microsecond intervals yet the digitisation of a single emission datum may take, say, 19.5 microseconds. For this reason, the prior art technique is to use a sampling approach. In this arrangement, the excitation light pulse is generated repetitively at a constant interval. The interval must be long enough for the emission from one pulse to have fallen substantially to zero before the next pulse is applied. After each excitation pulse a single emission intensity is measured at a controlled time after the excitation pulse so as to give a single datum of the emission time relationship. For each successive cycle the time interval between the excitation and capturing of emission intensity is modified so as to build up a complete picture of the overall emission versus time relationship. In the example given for the first cycle the time delay could be 1 microsecond. For the second cycle the time delay may be 2 microseconds. For the third the delay will be 3 microseconds and so on.
The problem with this approach is that the interval between excitation pulses must be long enough to allow the emission to die away substantially to zero between one pulse and the next. At the same time many cycles are needed to build up a comprehensive picture of the emission versus time relationship. The overall measurement is thus slow. For example, again referring to the above example of one microsecond intervals between data points, if data covering two milliseconds is desired then 2000 data points will need to be collected. If the time for the emission to substantially fall to zero is 10 milliseconds, it will take 20 seconds to complete the 2000 measurement cycles.
According to a first aspect the present invention provides a spectrometry instrument and an exchangeable accessory therefor including a manually operable mechanism for attaching the exchangeable accessory to the instrument, the mechanism including a manually rotatable camming means associated with one of the accessory or the instrument, a male member associated with the other of the accessory or the instrument. The male member having a camming surface which is engageable by the camming means, wherein the accessory is positionable on the instrument in a predetermined location and the camming means is manually rotatable to engage the camming surface of the male member and thereby lock the accessory on the instrument in the predetermined location.
In spectrometry instruments which have exchangeable accessories, it would be advantageous if the instrument could detect if an accessory has been attached and if so, to identify what accessory it is. The advantages of this include the instrument's set up and programming for use with a particular accessory being able to be automatically established. Also for those accessories that include electrical componentry, such as stepper motors, it would be advantageous to detect the presence of such a component.
According to a second aspect the present invention provides a spectrometry instrument including an electrical circuit for identifying anyone of a plurality of exchangeable accessories which are connectable to the instrument, the electrical circuit including a voltage source and means for generating an identifying voltage therefrom, wherein each accessory includes at least one circuit element such that connection of an accessory to the instrument alters the identifying voltage to a value which is uniquely dependent upon the accessory which is connected to the instrument.
The accessory recognition circuitry may be such that it recognises the presence of an electric motor of an accessory. In this case a voltage divider can be arranged to provide a logic high signal in the presence of a motor by virtue of the motor winding completing a circuit between the voltage source and the voltage divider. In the absence of the motor, the circuit is open and a logic low signal is derived from the voltage divider.
Preferably the spectrometer includes circuitry for identifying an accessory and further circuitry for determining the presence or absence of an electric motor in that accessory.
For a spectrometer with a capacity to have a number of different accessories connected thereto at the same time, each connection socket for each accessory may include accessory recognition circuitry as above described. In this arrangement, the signal line for the identifying voltage from each circuit may be connected to a multiplexer for input to a microprocessor of a computer.
In a third aspect the present invention provides a method and apparatus for reducing the time for measuring a number of data points for determining a phosphorescence decay characteristic (that is, phosphorescence emission intensity versus time) of a sample.
According to this third aspect, there is provided a method of determining a phosphorescence decay characteristic of a sample or at least a portion thereof, including
i) exposing the sample to a first excitation hash of light,
ii) measuring the intensity of a decaying phosphorescence light signal from the sample caused by the first excitation flash at each of a sequence of measurement points which commence a controlled time after the first excitation flash and are separated by controlled times,
iii) exposing the sample to a second excitation flash of light and
iv) measuring the decaying phosphorescence light signal from the sample caused by the second excitation flash at each of a sequence of measurement points which commence a controlled time after the second excitation flash and are separated by controlled times, wherein the time instants to the first and subsequent measurement points from the second excitation flash lie between the first and subsequent measurement points respectively from the first excitation flash,
v) assembling the phosphorescence measurements into time sequence to produce a phosphorescence decay (characteristic, or a portion thereof, for the sample.
The assembly of the phosphorescence measurements into time sequence results in the measured data points from the second excitation flash being interleaved with those from the first excitation flash.
In some cases as the phosphorescence emission from a sample decays, the time interval between the data points which is required to adequately define the phosphorescence characteristic becomes longer. The above described method, in relating to determining possibly only a portion of a phosphorescence decay characteristic, recognises that after a certain time, the necessary time interval between data points to adequately define the characteristic may be so long as to be able to be sequentially measured from the emission caused by one of the excitation flashes and not both. Thus the above described method may be applied only for determining an initial or any particular predetermined portion of a decay characteristic.
The time intervals in step (ii) established by the controlled times are greater than the measurement and digitisation time. These intervals may be controlled in the sense they are prior determined or computed during the data collection process (that is, they are computed "on the fly" from the time for measurement and digitisation of data). The time intervals between measured data points may be uniform or vary from one interval to the next. Similarly, the time intervals in step (iv) established by the controlled times may be prior determined or determined by computation during the data collection process.
The method may be extended wherein further excitation flashes are initiated and further phosphorescence emission intensity measurements taken which result from each such further excitation flash, the further phosphorescence measurements for each such further excitation flash being taken at controlled times (ie., prior determined or computed times as above described) such that each such further phosphorescence measurement can be interleaved between phosphorescence measurements resulting from earlier excitation flashes. That is, steps (iii) and {iv) may be repeated as often as necessary until all required measured points are obtained.
According to this third aspect of the invention there is also provided apparatus for performing the above described method. This apparatus comprises a spectrophotometer and means for controlling the spectrophotometer, said means for controlling being such as to acquire sequential phosphorescence emission measurements data from each of a number of excitation cycles applied to a sample in the spectrophotometer and to assemble that data into a correct time sequence to define a phosphorescence decay characteristic, or a portion thereof, for the sample.
The means for controlling the spectrophotometer may be a suitably programmed computer or a dedicated device or circuitry.
Preferably this apparatus includes a manually operable mechanism for attaching an exchangeable accessory as described herein above. The apparatus also preferably includes an accessory recognition circuit as also described hereinabove.
The following detailed description with reference to drawings is provided to give a better understanding of the invention and to show how it may be carried into effect in all its aspects. This description and the drawings are given by way of non-limiting example only and are not to be interpreted as limiting the generality of the preceding description.
FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates a spectrophotometer for measuring fluorescence or phosphorescence from a sample;
FIGS. 2 to 4 illustrate a manually operable mechanism for attaching an accessory to a spectrophotometer;
FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate accessory recognition circuitry for use in a spectrophotometer;
FIGS. 7A and 7B illustrate data acquisition circuits; and
FIG. 8 diagrammatically illustrates a phosphorescence measurement regime.
A fluorescence spectrophotometer, as diagrammatically illustrated in FIG. 1, includes a Xenon flash light source 20, the light 22 from which is directed into an excitation monochromator 24. Light 26 of a selected wavelength which exits monochromator 24 passes through a beam splitter 28 to derive a reference beam 30 the intensity of which is measured by a detector 32. Excitation light 26 continues from beam splitter 28 and irradiates a sample in sample holder 34. The fluorescence (or phosphorescence) light 36 emitted by the sample traverses an emission monochromator 38, the light of a selected wavelength 40 of which the intensity is measured by detector 42. The emission monochromator is arranged to be off the axis of the excitation monochromator 24. Drivers 44 and 46 for each of the monochromators 24, 38 respectively, allow for wavelength, filter and slit width selection.
Operation of the spectrophotometer is controlled by a computer or other means (not shown in FIG. 1) such that slit: widths and filters are selectable according to wavelength and controlled by stepper motors allowing either manual or automatic selection. Slit selector is user controlled. The computer or other control means also controls the data acquisition electronics (to be described below) and the manipulation of the data, notably for phosphorescence measurements, also to be described below.
The detectors 32 and 42 are photomultiplier tubes. If the light tight sample compartment door of the instrument is opened allowing incident light to reach the photomultiplier tubes 32 and 42, the firmware recognises this overrange condition and causes a filter to be moved to block the entry of the incident light into the photomultiplier tubes and/or reduce the EHT power supply. Another protection feature is that monochromators 24 and 38 include safety interlocks for preventing a zero order setting for slit widths greater than 5 nm. The instrument includes exchangeable accessories schematically represented at 48, 50 and 52. Such accessories generally provide for different samples and sample presentation regimes and are thus exchangeable in relation to the sample holder 34. The instrument may simultaneously have a number, for example up to four, different accessories connected thereto. All accessories require mechanical attachment to a sample compartment of the instrument and in one aspect this invention provides a quick, simple and reliable attachment mechanism for this. The sample compartment of a spectrometer is an accessible space within the spectrometer wherein a sample is conveniently placed for the purpose of making spectrometric measurements. A sample compartment is typically provided with means to hold a sample in a precisely defined position with respect to the paths of light beams in the spectrometer, and is provided with apertures for the passage of said light beams. In another aspect the invention provides electrical means for detecting the presence or absence of an accessory, and if an accessory is attached and plugged in, identifying that accessory so that appropriate software programmes for measurement regimes using that accessory may be automatically loaded. This saves user time in that the user does not then have to search for the relevant programmes.
With reference to FIGS. 2-4, the mechanical attachment mechanism for an accessory such as 48 comprises a manually rotatable camming means 54 associated with the accessory 48. FIG. 2 shows an underneath view of the base 56 of an accessory 48 on which is mounted for rotation a shaft 58 for manually rotating the camming means 54 via a handle 60 (a plate which is attachable to the base 56 for covering the shaft 58 has been omitted from FIGS. 2 and 3). FIG. 3 shows a section of FIG. 2 on line III—III.
Ideally the camming means is rotated through less than 360� to attach the accessory and more ideally its rotation is about 180�, Preferably the camming means has a female form for receiving the male member, for example it may be spherical or cylindrical with a recess formed therein having a curved camming surface which interacts with the camming surface of the male member. The camming means is preferably located substantially centrally of a base of the accessory and is operable via a shaft which extends to a peripheral surface of the accessory for manual operation. Preferably the shaft includes a handle or knob for facilitating its manual rotation.
Preferably the male member is associated with and is biased in a direction towards the instrument such that, as the camming means and the male member become engaged, the male member is moved in a direction away from the instrument against the bias. This ensures that when the camming means and the male member are fully engaged to lock the accessory onto the instrument, a positive holding force is maintained on the accessory.
Alternatively the camming means may be associated with the instrument and the male member with the accessory.
Preferably the accessory and the instrument include a number of complementary projections such as pins on and recesses in their facing surfaces for establishing the predetermined location for the accessory on the I instrument. Thus, as the camming means is rotated to engage the male member and draw the accessory towards the instrument, the projections, which are preferably on the accessory, locate in complementary recesses which are preferably in the instrument, to ensure the correct location of the accessory on the instrument.
It will be appreciated that embodiments of the invention as described above and to be described in more detail below provide an easily manually operable attachment mechanism which allows quick attachment and release of an accessory from a spectrometry instrument which is preferably a spectrophotometer. This quick attachment and release advantage of the invention is derived from the mechanism's use of a single attachment point and the actual attachment being achieved by an approximate half turn of the camming means via a prominently accessible handle, knob or the like.
The camming means 54 comprises a cylinder 62 within which a recess 64 is formed which provides a curved camming surface 66.
A male member 68 (see FIG. 3) is mounted in the base 70 of the sample compartment of the instrument and includes an outer spherical form 72 which is engageable by the camming means 54, specifically its camming surface 66, whereby rotation of the camming means 54 via handle 60 causes its surface 66 to interact with spherical surface 72 of male member 68 to draw the accessory base 56 into facing contact with instrument base 70 and lock the accessory on the instrument in a predetermined location. The predetermined location is determined by the relative locations of the camming means 54 and the male member 68 and by complementary location means on an accessory and the instrument. These complementary location means may comprise protrusions 74 on the accessory base 56 (only one of which is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3) which are locatable in recesses 76 in the instrument base 70. A convenient and preferred mechanism for spatially locating the accessory in the sample compartment is to use a kinetic mount. This consists of three protruding pegs on either the instrument or the accessory The first peg engages in a hole in the mating surface and thereby accurately locates one point of the accessory to the instrument. Height control may be achieved either by the peg resting on the bottom of a blind hole or a shoulder on the peg resting on the top of the hole. The second peg locates in a slot in the mating surface whose centre line passes through the centre of the previously mentioned hole. It uses similar means of height control as for the first peg. This controls angular position of the accessory with reference to the first location point. The third peg rests on a plate on the mating surface.
The spherical form 72 of the male member 68 is at the end of a stem 78 mounted in a sleeve 80 and biased inwardly relative thereto by a spring 82. The sleeve 80 is screw-threaded at a lower 01″ inner end 84 for attachment in an aperture 86 in the base. Thus as the camnning means 54 engages the male member 68 and is rotated relative thereto the spring 82 acts to bias the spherical form 72 downwardly towards the base 70 of the instrument. This ensures that when the camming means 54 and the male member 68 (specifically the surfaces 66 and 72) are fully engaged to lock the accessory 48 onto the instrument, a positive holding force maintained on the accessory.
The accessory 48 is releasable simply by reversely manually rotating the handle 60 to release the spherical form 72 from the camming surface 66 and lifting the accessory away.
The spectrophotometer includes a number of sockets, for example four, in its sample compartment for receiving plugs on the accessories, that is, each accessory has a plug which is receivable in anyone of the four sockets. An accessory recognition circuit in the spectrophotometer includes a voltage source 86 (see FIG. 5) the negative side of which is connected to ground and the positive to a means for generating an identifying voltage in the form of a voltage divider comprising resistors 88 and 90. The series connection of the source 86 and resistors 88 and 90 is connected to a dedicated pin 92 of a socket in the sample compartment. A signal line 94 is connected between the resistors 88 and 90 and a multiplexer 96, and then to an analog to digital converter 98 and a microprocessor (not shown) for reading the data and controlling operations. An identifying voltage for an accessory is read via signal line 94. If there is no accessory present, this circuit is open and the voltage of source 86 is read on line 94.
Preferably the means for generating an identifying voltage is a voltage divider and this together with the voltage source provide an open electrical circuit such that in the absence of an accessory the identifying voltage floats to the voltage of the voltage source, thereby identifying the absence of an accessory. Preferably each accessory provides a circuit element for completing the electrical circuit of the spectrophotometer when connected thereto. The circuit element of each accessory is different such that when it completes the circuit including the voltage source and the voltage divider of the spectrometer, it causes the identifying voltage to change to a value which is unique for that accessory. The identifying voltage which is generated is read by a microprocessor which identifies the particular accessory, or absence of an accessory I connected to the spectrometer, which is preferably a spectrophotometer.
The circuit element of an accessory, may simply provide a link which connects to ground, or a particular voltage of the instrument, eg. +5V, +12V, +15V or −15V, depending on the accessory. This arrangement can be used for accessories which do not include their own electronics. For accessories which do include their own electronics and thus a circuit board and a plurality of circuit elements, a resistor may be included which connects between the circuit of the instrument and a connection to ground. +5V, +12V, +15V or −15V. It will be evident that a number of circuit combinations are possible to provide for a number of different accessories. For example, a circuit element of an accessory in the form of a link that connects to ground, +5V, +12V, +15V or −15V gives 5 combinations. That is, it gives the possibility of generating five unique voltages and thereby the identification of five different accessories.
Connection of an accessory to the socket may provide a circuit element in the form of a link (not shown) to ground, or to an analog voltage, say +5 volts, +12 volts, +15 volts or −15 volts on other pirls of the socket, depending on the particular accessory. When such a link is made, the voltage appearing on line 94 will alter to a value which is uniquely dependent upon the particular link established by that accessory. Thus the voltage signal on line 94 can be used by the microprocessor to identify a particular accessory. Such a link for completing the circuit of the instrument is suitable for accessories which do not include their own circuitry. Furthermore the possibility of the link connecting to ground, +5 volts, +12 volts, +15 volts or −15 volts provides five combinations, that is, it allows the identification of five different accessories.
The multiplexer includes four signal inputs, one from each of a circuit such as is illustrated associated with each of 1 the four accessory sockets.
Alternatively where an accessory does include its own circuitry, a resistor 100 may be added which is connectable, via the plugging in of an accessory to one of the instrument sockets, to ground or ˜3 supply voltage such as +5 volts, +12 volts, +15 volts or −15 volts at pin 102. This will also alter the voltage on signal line 94 to a unique value for the particular accessory concerned. This allows more combinations for the identifying voltages 94 than the previous arrangement of using only a link. Alternatively the resistor 100 may be connected to or replaced by a programmable voltage source to allow for re-configurable accessories.
For an accessory with a stepper motor, the recognition circuitry may comprise a pull-up resistor 104 (see FIG. 6) connected between a voltage source 106 (eg. 12V) of the instrument and a pin 108 of the accessory socket. A voltage divider comprising resistors 110, 112 is connected between another pin 114 of the socket and ground. A signal line 116 is connected between the voltage divider resistors 110, 112. Motor drivers 118, 120 are connected to the pins 108, 114. FIG. 6 shows a motor of an accessory having a winding 122 connected across the pins 108, 114. On power up the motor drivers 118, 120 are disabled and pull up resistor 104 and voltage divider 110-112 generate a "motor present" signal, that is, if there is a motor winding connected across pins 108, 114 a current flows through the voltage divider 110-112 which generates a logic high signal (indicating "motor present") which is read by the microprocessor (not shown) to which signal line 116 leads. If a motor is not present, a logic low signal on line 116 is read by the microprocessor.
The plug of an accessory may be arranged on the accessory such that it automatically mates with a socket of the instrument as the accessory is attached thereon via a mechanical attachment mechanism as described hereinabove. Thus the one action of attaching an accessory may automatically establish its electrical connection to the instrument and completion of the recognition circuitry and the possible consequential automatic loading of programmes.
A data acquisition circuit of an instrument as in FIG. 1 is diagrammatically illustrated in FIG. 7A. This circuit comprises an amplification stage 124 connected to a detector 42 as in FIG. 1. The output of the amplification stage 124 is connected to a sample and hold circuit 126, the output of which is i connected to an analog to digital converter 128 which supplies the data to a microprocessor of a computer 130. The instrument is computer controlled and this is represented by line 132 (alternatively the instrument may be controlled by a dedicated device or circuitry). Multiple channel data acquisition circuits may be provided, or as illustrated, separate sample and hold circuits 134, 136 etc, each followed by an analog to digital converter {not shown) may be connected between the amplification stage 124 and the computer 130. FIG. 7B illustrates a modification of the FIG. 7A circuit, namely the addition of control circuitry 138 which receives a signal on line 140 from an AID converter 128 indicating that a conversion is complete and sending a signal on line 142 to a sample and hold circuit 126, 134, 136 to start another conversion. That is, the additional circuitry 138-142 determines the measurement time dynamically, typically initiating the next conversion whenever one of the conversion circuits becomes idle.
Use of a fluorescence spectrophotometer as in FIG. 1 having a data acquisition circuit as in FIG. 7 and which may have either or both of the accessory attachment and accessory recognition features described hereinabove, for making phosphorescence measurements will now be described to exemplify the third aspect of the invention.
A problem with a data acquisition circuit such as that of FIG. 7A or 7B is that the gate time for the digitisation and reading of a sample data point from the sample and hold circuit 126 by the analog to digital converter 128 and microprocessor 130 usually exceeds the time space in between the data points which is necessary to adequately define the phosphorescence decay characteristic of the sample. That is, the electronics is not fast enough to convert all of the necessary data, hence a relatively high number of flash and read cycles have to be performed, with only one data point being collected for each cycle.
The controlled times between the phosphorescence emission measurement points for a particular excitation flash may be equal, with the time to the first measurement point resulting from the second excitation flash being different to and preferably longer than the time to the first measurement point resulting from the first excitation flash. Continuing with this sequence, the time to the first measurement point resulting from a third excitation flash will be greater than the time to the first measurement point resulting from the second excitation flash, and likewise for any subsequent excitation flashes.
Effectively the time to the first phosphorescence measurement points resulting from the first and subsequent excitation flashes are respectively offset such that the first measurement point resulting from the second excitation flash follows the first measurement point resulting from the first excitation flash, and the first measurement point resulting from a third excitation flash follows the first measurement point resulting from the second excitation flash, and likewise for any subsequent excitation flashes.
The controlled time periods may be such that the interleaved data points are separated by equal time intervals. Alternatively the controlled time periods may be such that the interleaved data points are separated by unequal time periods. That is, this third aspect of the invention encompasses an operator being able to decide the particular time intervals that will exist between successive interleaved data points which define the phosphorescence decay characteristic. These particular time intervals may be equal or unequal and varied, as the operator determines.
FIG. 8 illustrates a phosphorescence decay characteristic 200 (intensity vs. time) for a sample for which it is desired that,measurement data at points 202-215 be collected to define the characteristic. Sample integration periods for the data points 202-216 are shown at time-lines (b), (c), (d) and (e). The time intervals shown along time-line (a) represent the time for the data of a measurement point to be transferred to the computer. This time is greater than the spacing between the data points 202-21), thus the computer cannot collect the data of all the desired measurement points in one pass.
According to the invention, several decay scans are performed and the data from each are interleaved in a correct time sequence to derive the phosphorescence decay characteristic. The measurement regime is under control of computer 130 which keeps track of all the delay/emission data points required to define the phosphorescence decay characteristic. Following an excitation flash, the data acquisition electronics 42-124-126-128-130 completes collection of the first datum 202 as represrented by time interval at (a), the computer notes the time from the excitation pulse, looks for the next unmeasured point 206 after that time and triggers the data acquisition electronics to collect that point as well, and so on for the illustrated datums 210 and 214. Thus several data points are measured on the one cycle as shown at (b ). The next excitation pulse is then triggered, and under the control of the computer, the data points 203, 207, 211, 215 are collected, as shown at (c) and so on for as many cycles as are required to collect all the desired data points, see (d) and (e).
The computer then assembles all the measured data points into the correct overall time sequence to create the complete phosphorescence characteristic. For example, if measurement at 1 microsecond intervals is required to define the phosphorescence characteristic and the acquisition of each measurement data point takes 19.5 microseconds, on the first cycle the emission at 1 microsecond is measured. This data is transferred to the computer at 20.5 microseconds. The next data point required is at 21 microseconds so the computer triggers the electronics to collect this point. The second point is transferred to the computer at time 40.5 microseconds. The next data point required is at 41 microseconds and so the computer triggers the electronics to collect this point, and so on. On the second cycle, the computer collects data for times 2 microseconds, 22 microseconds, 42 microseconds etc. In this example, for data covering 2 milliseconds, all points can be collected in 20 cycles instead of 2000 cycles for the prior art approach, reducing the overall measurement time from 20 seconds to 200 milliseconds.
The time intervals between the data points may vary or be fixed and is not critical to the invention, which is characterised by the collection of more than one data point from each cycle and the reassembly of those data points into the correct time sequence within the associated computer system.
This third aspect of the invention offers several advantages. The first is the time saving leading to increased productivity. Some samples have the characteristic of changing their properties with time or with the amount of excitation light received. The invention reduces both the measurement and the total integrated amount of excitation light imposed on the sample thereby minimising this source of measurement uncertainty.
In order to obtain good time precision for short duration 15 phosphorescence events the duration of the excitation pulse needs to be short while at the same time delivering a high total 1 light flux to the sample. A xenon flash lamp 20 meets these requirements of short duration and high intensity and is thus a desirable source for such applications. It has however the disadvantage that the light output per flash is variable. Since the emission signal is proportional to the excitation signal such variation must be allowed for if accurate results are to be obtained. To this end, in the implementation of the phosphorescence measurement method, the excitation flux for each pulse is measured at the start of each cycle and used to normalise the emission measurements collected during that cycle. That is, as is known, a dark signal is measured for the sample for each cycle, and a dark signal and reference signal for the reference beam 30 which are used to normalise the results.
A further variant on this third aspect is to use two or more independent sets of measurement and digitisation electronics operating from the same signal source and all capable of transmitting the digitised value to the processor. In this case the processor initiates a first excitation flash of light and as each measurement time instant is reached it triggers the next available set of measurement and digitisation electronics to acquire the value. This variant has the advantage of achieving still shorter data collection times but at the expense of greater electronic cost and complexity. Thus two or more independent sets of digitisation electronics may be used in conjunction with multiple flashes to give still greater speeds.
Preferably a reference intensity measurement is taken of every excitation flash of light, and the phosphorescence emission intensity measurements derived from that flash are ratioed with the reference to compensate for differences in intensity which may occur between flashes. As is known such compensation may include dark signal measurements being taken immediately before an excitation flash and subtracted from the measured excitation and emission intensities for the ratioing.
The invention in each of its aspects as described herein is susceptible to variations, modifications and/or additions other than those specifically described and it is to be understood that the invention includes all such variations, modifications an/or additions which fall within the scope of the following claims.
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|Atomic resonance line source lamps and spectrophotometers for use with such lamps
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|Jun 2, 1987
|The Perkin-Elmer Corporation
|Programmable lamp plug
|Jun 30, 1983
|Sep 12, 1989
|Atlantic Richfield Company
|Optical device with adjusting means
|Nov 15, 1989
|Feb 19, 1991
|Nikon Corporation
|Waterproof camera and lens mount therefore
|Feb 22, 1993
|Apr 11, 1995
|Mattson Instruments, Inc.
|Spectrometer and IR source therefor
|Dec 9, 1993
|Sep 17, 1996
|Bruker Analytische Mebtechnik Gmbh
|Spectrometer with dynamically coded components
|Oct 3, 1996
|Apr 6, 1999
|Hewlett-Packard Company
|Apparatus for recognition of exchangeable parts in analytical measuring instruments
|Apr 30, 1997
|Aug 10, 1999
|Van Der Weide; Daniel Warren
|Combined topography and electromagnetic field scanning probe microscope
|Nov 4, 1997
|Dec 14, 1999
|California Institute Of Technology
|High resolution scanning raman microscope
|Nov 12, 1999
|Sep 10, 2002
|Shimadzu Corporation
|Spectrophotometer with validation programs
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|Aug 29, 2002
|Kley Victor B.
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PRICE remains the sticking point as Billabong executives battle to seal a takeover deal for the struggling surfwear company.
Offers as low as 50c a share are believed to have been submitted for the Gold Coast-based retailer, but Billabong is pushing for a better deal from its private equity suitors.
Shares in the troubled company were suspended indefinitely yesterday as it continued talks to try to draw out an improved offer to take to shareholders.
The company's shares were due to resume trading yesterday after Billabong sought a trading halt on Tuesday as the takeover talks passed their March 28 deadline.
A consortium led by Billabong's former America's boss, Paul Naude, and New York-based firm Sycamore is still thought to be the frontrunner in the negotiations despite offering a bid well below the $1.10 a share it put forward in December.
Rival consortium VF Corporation, which owns the Timberland, North Face and Vans brands, and US investment firm Altamont Capital Partners also submitted a discounted offer.
Billabong spokesman Chris Fogarty would not comment on the negotiations except to say they were ongoing.
"It is not that things have been stalled, the talks are continuing," he said.
Analysts said Billabong was doing everything it could to prompt its two suitors to raise their bids so it had an offer with some chance of being accepted by shareholders.
"It all comes down to price," said Morningstar's Tim Montague-Jones. "They are trying to get a deal which the board thinks is acceptable to present to shareholders."
He said Gordon Merchant, Billabong's founder and largest shareholder, remained key to pushing a takeover tilt over the line.
Mr Merchant last year knocked back as too low a $3.30 a share offer from private equity group TPG which valued the embattled company at $850 million.
However, his close relationship with Mr Naude makes it likely he will be amenable to an offer from that consortium.
"The board needs to bring Gordon Merchant on side," Mr Montague-Jones said.
"I assume most shareholders will be eager to sell out.
"Everybody wants a deal done and to see the company in private equity hands."
Nathan Blair, manager of Ord Minnett Gold Coast, believes the latest offer-price speculation could be true
"One of the parties may be offering as little as 50c a share, however a higher offer would be more realistic," he said.
"The board won't entertain a 50c a share offer.
"We continue to believe the offer will need to be at least 80c to 90c to succeed."
Billabong has received six takeover offers in little more than a year but none has been successful.
In February, the company plunged into the red with a $536.6 million first-half net loss. It also downgraded its underlying earnings forecast for 2012-13 to between $74 million and $85 million.
Billabong's shares last traded at 73c.
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Treatment of measles involves allowing the body to rest as well as boosting its support with natural remedies and supplements. Fluids, rest and avoiding activity are important considerations for treating measles. Additionally, natural supplements including vitamin C, turmeric and barley also aid the system in healing.
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A childhood infection, measles is a common condition that is typically prevented via vaccine. Common symptoms of measles include cough, runny nose, inflammation in the eyes, sore throat, fever, and a red skin rash. Measles can be fatal in small children.
Measles are especially contagious and are passed via a virus that thrives in the mucus membranes of the throat and nose. When an infected individual coughs or sneezes, infected water droplets enter the air. As another individual inhales or contacts this infection by touching a contaminated surface and touching his or her mouth or eyes, he or she will likely contract the condition.
Home Remedies for Measles
No treatment actually cures the vaccine; however, several home remedies can be applied to protect an infected individual and prevent further progression of the illness. Rest, plenty of fluids and avoiding contact with other individuals is crucial. Additionally, supplements including turmeric, barley and vitamin C support immune health and shorten recovery.
Turmeric is derived from the Curcuma longa plant and has powerful anti-inflammatory and antibiotic properties. Taken as a powder mixed with honey or milk, turmeric aids in recovery and supports the immune system.
A common cereal grain, barley is a good source of molybdenum, manganese, dietary fiber, selenium, vitamin B1 and several other vitamins and minerals. As such, barley supports general health and can shorten recovery time by supplementing the diet. Barely water offers relief to a sore throat and cough while a bath in barely water may relieve the rash.
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Vitamin c is a potent antioxidant and has several other healing properties. Vitamin C eliminates toxins in the body and supports recovery. Additionally, vitamin C supports the growth and repair of the body and tissues.
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Ted mentioned curing Measles in one day via Aspirin. My 2yr old has a rash and diarrhea (but is otherwise fine - eating, drinking, playing, no fever) and we visited the Dr today, who diagnosed possible Measles (albeit a minor case). He is not immunised. I was just wondering why the internet says quite strongly that Aspirin is dangerous for children under 12 and if I wanted to try the remedy for my 2 yr old, how much should I give him? Thank you kindly.
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Seattle, Wa - Usa
06/14/2011It is called Reye's syndrome. Here is a snippet from the National Reye's Syndrome web site (www.reyessyndrome.org)
Reye's Syndrome, a deadly disease, strikes swiftly and can attack any child, teen, or adult without warning. All body organs are affected, with the liver and brain suffering most seriously. While the cause and cure remain unknown, research has established a link between Reye's Syndrome and the use of aspirin and other salicylate containing medications, over the counter products, and topical use products. In 1974, the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation, a health advocacy organization, was incorporated as a 501(c)3 charity, whose mission is to eradicate the incidence of Reye's Syndrome.
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Melbourne, Australia
06/14/2011My mother always gave us crushed aspirin in honey when we were little and none of us ever got sick but usually got better. Maybe the problem lies in the fact that there is no PATENT on aspirin.
Reyes Syndrome has no known cure (surprise, surprise) so need more and more money to help "CURE" it. As we all know on this website, many diseases are easily cured but money talks.
I am just saying you need to be mindful of these so called syndromes that have no cure as long as they can get money from the public or the Governments.
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Melbourne, Australia
06/15/2011An interesting article of a study:
There is a lack of convincing evidence that aspirin causes Reye syndrome: it may be one of many possible factors but many cases currently reported are probably due to inborn errors of metabolism. It is unclear whether restricting aspirin use by children has a favourable risk/benefit ratio.
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05/26/2014@Debbie from Melbourne, Australia
What are you talking about, no patent on aspirin? What does that have to do with anything? And who is 'they'? What's wrong with getting money from the public or the governments? The more money they have, the more research they will be able to do in trying to better understand the syndrome . I.e.; to understand what triggers it, why some people recover more easily from it, etc..
And just to point out the fact that you are linking us to an article written and published by AspirinTM stating how AspirinTMaren't the ones to blame...
If George Bush said there were no WMDs in Iraq and we should go to war, then we should believe him, right??
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Wales Uk
05/27/2014Oh yes there was a 'patent ' on Children's aspirin when I was a child aged 3, 51 year's ago. It was called 'Junior aspirin' and they were orange flavored and tasted like 'Haliborange', which is a children's Vit C chewable tablet.
And many Mothers used to give them out like candy to their children!! ' And I used to climb on chairs and anything in reach to try to get them as being a child and they were tasty I thought that they WERE candy!! But my Mother never left anything like that or household cleaning stuff etc. where us kids could get hold of it.
Anyway 51 years ago 'Junior aspirin' was pulled off the shelves as it was found to cause liver disease and some illness never seen before but I can't remember what it was. It WAS 51 years ago you know :-D
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Featured Social Work Graduates
Danel Burchby, MSW
Danel Burchby is a UW Oshkosh, Department of Social Work class of 2007 graduate of the Master of Social Work Collaborative Program. She has recently accepted a new position with Goodwill as the Regional Program Coordinator for a newer program called Circles of Support. Danel works administratively with Circles of Support who oversee volunteers and coordinate support systems for men and women coming out of the prision system and back into the community. Circles of Support offers encouragement, models pro-social behaviors, and assists individuals with accessing needed resources.
Melissa Elmer, BSW
Melissa Elmer is a UW Oshkosh class of 2000 graduate and was acknowledged for positive contributions in a newspaper article on September 24, 2003. Melissa is now the Executive Director of the Hamilton-Wenham Community House where her job involves organizing community events for families and people of all ages, fundraising, marketing, and rentals of a beautiful hall, state of the art kitchen, and offices, among other duties.


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Video by Jake Lyell
We hope you're having a great holiday weekend. Are you spending some time in the pool, like millions of Americans do during the Fourth of July? Take a moment and think about water a couple thousand miles away. It's very hard to find clean, drinkable water in many developing countries, but a lot of people are working on the problem.
That's why our corporate partner Procter & Gamble's Children's Safe Drinking Water program is so important. For a decade, P&G has provided their Purifier of Water packets to children in vulnerable communities around the world, including in seven countries where ChildFund works. In just a few minutes, a child has clean water to drink. Watch this video and see!
Reading habits usually develop within families. Mom and Dad read to a child at bedtime, or an older sibling shows a younger one how to sound out words, or Grandma pulls a book of fairy tales off the shelf. In some homes, though, there are no books. Even in the United States.
That's why ChildFund started the Just Read! program in some of the most marginalized areas in the country: Native American reservations in Oklahoma and South Dakota, African American communities in Mississippi and Hispanic communities in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. You can learn more about the project and also donate age-appropriate books on our Amazon wish list. For Father's Day, please consider helping a family develop the reading habit.
ChildFund's president and CEO, Anne Lynam Goddard, wrote about the importance of child protection for the Huffington Post this week. You can take a simple action – sharing this story via social media – and help children who are vulnerable to violence. Anne's post is part of the Relay for Kids project, a partnership of SOS Children's Villages, Johnson & Johnson and the Huffington Post, and each time you share her story on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social networks from now through April 24, Johnson & Johnson will donate $1 per action to support children worldwide who are affected by crisis. Thanks for your help.
By Kate Andrews, ChildFund Staff Writer
At ChildFund, we have spent many hours helping children and families cope with the aftermath of wars, disasters and other traumatic events. For the past 25 years, we've raised funds specifically for emergency relief and often remain in affected communities for months or even years, helping people recover financially and emotionally.
Hand in glove with disaster recovery is preparation for future emergencies, such as earthquakes, typhoons and droughts. To help communities be prepared, ChildFund supports disaster risk reduction efforts in several countries, including Indonesia and the Philippines, which are prone to destructive storms.
In March, ChildFund Australia's international program director, Mark McPeak, led ChildFund's delegation to the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, an internationally significant gathering. At the end of the meeting, world leaders from 187 countries signed the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030, which sets seven global targets for the next 15 years. They include lowering the number of people killed or harmed by disasters; reducing economic loss, damage to infrastructure and disruption of basic services; increasing the number of countries with disaster risk reduction strategies and enhancing international cooperation to implement these goals.
McPeak notes in this piece for Devex that these targets are admirable, but right now, they are nonbinding and unfunded, which leaves them less potent than they could be. However, the door has not closed on discussions about funding and requiring governments' participation, with opportunities ahead in the United Nations' other conferences this year: the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in July, the global U.N. summit in September and the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris in December.
ChildFund's chief goal at Sendai was to get other participants to understand and recognize the value of child and youth participation in disaster recovery and preparation.
"Children and young people are normally seen as helpless, passive victims of disasters," McPeak writes. "During and after emergencies, the mainstream media, even many organizations in our own international NGO sector, portray children and young people as needing protection and rescue. Of course, children and young people do need protection. When disasters strike, they need rescue and care. But what such images fail to show is that children also have the capacity — and the right — to participate, not only in preparing for disasters but in the recovery process."
To make his point, McPeak presented information about youth who took part in disaster risk reduction efforts in 2011 in Iloilo and Zamboanga del Norte provinces in the Philippines, spreading awareness in eight communities. A year and a half later, this work paid off when Typhoon Haiyan struck just north of the area, and local governments were more prepared than in previous storms. More people in vulnerable areas were evacuated, and Child-Centered Spaces were up and ready to help children soon after the storm passed.
You can read more about ChildFund's disaster risk reduction programs, including our work in Indonesia, Zambia and the Philippines.
In this video, Mamta talks about how the Udaan scholarship available through ChildFund India has helped her overcome financial challenges to attend university to become a teacher. Her parents are illiterate, and many of her friends in her village dropped out to get married, so what she is doing is remarkable.
"I want to teach other girls to continue their educations so they'll be independent, like me, and have a good life," Mamta says. Video by Jake Lyell.
By Christine Ennulat, Content Manager
One of my favorite things about becoming a mother was the whole new world of children's books I staggered into — with my kids tumbling into it with me when they were little and then, before long, actually leading me through it. It brought back, again and again, waves of nostalgia for all that books had meant to me in my own childhood. My children are older now, but those days are on my mind again as I learn about how ChildFund's Just Read! program is helping hundreds of children in some of the United States' poorest communities find the magic of reading for pleasure.
One thing I've learned that I didn't know: Reading for pleasure trumps socioeconomic status as a determinant of how well kids do in school. (The magic of reading for pleasure, indeed!)
I don't remember much of my own early childhood experience with books. My parents came to the U.S. from Germany just a couple of years before I was born, and my main memory of any book from that time was Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struvvelpeter, a German collection of alarming cautionary tales that included one about a boy who refuses to cut his hair and fingernails (yikes!) and another about a boy who won't stop sucking his thumb until one day a man wielding giant shears appears and … well.
Honestly, I couldn't get enough of those gruesome tales. "Pleasure" probably isn't an accurate description of what they gave me … but I'm not sure pleasure is necessarily that simple. What I can say is that I took to reading in search of similar wild thrills and imaginative flights. But even more, I was searching for myself.
As a weird, lonely kid, I recognized myself in moody Meg Murry, of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, and in Milo, the initially reluctant protagonist of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (after whom I named Kid #3). And always, always there was Beverly Cleary's Ramona, and her blue-haired doll with the most beautiful name in the world, Chevrolet, and the Dawnzer, and "BOINNNG!" Oh, the courage of Ramona. I wanted to be Ramona.
Later, I would — and still do — recognize my own heart in Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke's exhortation, in his Letters to a Young Poet: "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
As my own children grew, I delighted alongside them as they found their own ways down their own rabbit holes toward who they might become. My oldest fell in love with Tamora Pierce's Alanna books, in which a girl becomes a knight in her kingdom, and her Dane books, with a heroine who converses with animals. Kid #3 couldn't get enough of Al Perkins' Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, which my whole family can still shout-chant from memory to this day, and through which music grabbed hold of him for the first time. (Kid #4 now says he hated that book because, as he learned to read from it, he had to face silent Bs—"thum-BUH," he says. He became a Calvin and Hobbes guy.)
It was magical for me to be along for this ride, vicariously experiencing their journeys through silliness, love, terror, beauty and more.
Children need these flights of the imagination, these adventures beyond their everyday circumstances. When they use their imaginations, they flex their abilities to think creatively, and that's key to not only learning but also taking aim at what they want to accomplish in their lives.
Reading is a way toward experiencing difficult feelings in manageable ways, which prepares a child for facing difficult situations in real life. Reading is also a way toward relief of stress — which is rampant and nearly constant for families living in poverty — and a way toward a loved one's lap.
And reading is a way toward laughter. (I am convinced that laughter has an important role in the fight against poverty.)
Years ago, my neighbor said to me, after having accomplished some crazy plumbing repair without help, "If you know how to read, you can do anything."
I second that sentiment … and offer a tweak: If you know how to read, you can be anything.
When children read, even amid the most challenging circumstances, they really can.
You can help change a child's life by donating to ChildFund's Just Read! program.
By Himangi Jayasundere, ChildFund Sri Lanka
Today, which is known as Black Friday in the United States, is a great opportunity to think about sharing our good fortune with children in need. Dream Bikes allow children — especially girls — to get to school safely and quickly.
An impatient Piyumi, waiting for her father to take her to school, used to be a regular sight. Her teacher scolded her many times for being late, which she often was: Her long trek from home to school was more than two miles each way, on foot unless she could catch a ride on her father's bicycle. Some days she stayed home because it was too difficult to get to school.
But today, she no longer has to catch a bicycle ride with her father or walk down village paths in Mahakalugolle, Sri Lanka. Piyumi, an 11-year-old sixth-grade student, has her own bike, thanks to a ChildFund donor.
Piyumi has been in ChildFund's sponsorship program for more than five years. Last year, she sat for Sri Lanka's Year 5 scholarship exam and passed with high marks, which made her school proud.
So, along with the bicycle, Piyumi also received school materials, a school bag and shoes from ChildFund donors, to recognize her hard work and achievements.
"Some days, I had to wait till my father finished his work to come to school," Piyumi says. "But now soon as I get ready, I can come to school on my own. My brother also likes my new bicycle." Sometimes he rides with her.
"I feel better knowing that Piyumi is on a bike on the journey back home," her mother says. "I feel that she is safer."
By Janat Totakhail, ChildFund Afghanistan
Janana is 15 and the oldest of four sisters. They live in a village in northern Afghanistan near the border of Tajikistan, where few children — especially girls — have the opportunity to get an education. Janana, too, had never been allowed by her mother and father to attend school.
Her father works as a shopkeeper and sometimes as a hired farmer, while her mother takes care of the household. As the oldest sister, Janana also has many responsibilities at home. But she always hoped to go to school. Today, that goal has become a strong possibility.
In Afghanistan, ChildFund supports Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) where children and teens can study and play. In Janana's village and four more, we started 10 CFSs in 2013: one for boys and one for girls in each community, and 1,001 children have taken part in the program. Many have experienced war-related trauma and are still at risk of violence, abuse and neglect, so the spaces don't just serve educational needs. They help keep children safe and also let community members plan for emergencies, particularly how to protect their children. Once ChildFund's direct supervision ended in January, community members have stepped in to run the programs.
The CFSs for girls have eased some of the stigma attached to education for young women. Janana persuaded her parents to let her attend.
Now, it is her second home, giving her a place to learn and spend time with girls from her neighborhood. Janana is able to read and write names and short sentences, and she's about a year away from mastering primary school-level literacy and numeracy. One of her sisters has joined her at the CFS.
"I like learning the Pashto language," Janana says, "and I feel proud and empowered while reading a letter for my parents and helping my little sister to read and write."
If she had not attended the CFS, she adds, "my life would be different. I would be busy all day with housework, with no opportunity to interact with peers, make friends, play, and learn to read and write."
Janana's parents also are happy to see their daughter progressing in her studies.
"An illiterate person is like a blind person," her father says. "My daughter helps me to learn Islamic principles; she reads for me the letters, invitations and wedding cards; takes note of money that I lend to people, and she helps me understand the details of the electricity bill. She helps her mother and sisters in understanding personal hygiene and health issues. I am proud having Janana as a helping hand."
Kochai, who facilitates the CFS, also has noticed her progress: "Janana has been very active participating in learning activities. She learned to respect parents and elders, gained awareness in health and hygiene, and, more importantly, is progressing well in literacy and numeracy. I am hopeful that one day she will join school with children of her age."
Her family, too, is encouraging Janana to continue her education at a school close to her village. She has a big dream for the future: "I want to be a teacher, to help all school-age girls in my village to go to school and learn to make their future and help others."
By Nicole Duciaume, Americas Region Sponsorship Manager
After a long day of training at ChildFund's national office in Brazil and a few more hours in my hotel answering emails, I closed my laptop and walked a few blocks to the closest mall. I was on a dual mission: to eat dinner and to buy a Brazilian soccer jersey for my nephew's upcoming 12th birthday.
Later, with my belly full and my purchase in hand, I stumbled upon something so much more exciting — something I wasn't expecting.
In the middle of the shopping center was a photography exhibit with the ChildFund logo. I became enveloped in the amazing photos, which were described as #NoFilter (a social media term indicating that the photo has not been retouched or run through a filter on Instagram). The photos were all taken by children and youth enrolled in ChildFund's urban programs around the city of Belo Horizonte.
As the #NoFilter tag indicates, they are unfiltered, unedited and untouched… not just in the sense of using technology to alter the photos, but also in the sense of giving real perspective and insight into the daily lives of these children and youth: their identity, their roots and their realities.
These photos are a part of an outreach program, Photovoice, that uses photography to stimulate reflection among children and youth. It opens a space for them to talk about their communities and their cultural strengths. As such, these images become an important instrument to discuss citizenship, identity and collective work for the well-being of society. These photos are a launching pad for not only creative expression, but also building leaders for tomorrow.
I experienced the exhibit not only as someone who loves good photography but also as a proud ChildFund employee. I didn't expect to stumble upon the photos, but I am so glad I did. It helped me to reconnect, yet again, with the invaluable work my colleagues do around the world helping children and youth realize their beauty, power and value just as they are: without filters.
It isn't every day that you get to meet a United States president, but our president and CEO, Anne Lynam Goddard, attended the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting last week in New York City, convened by former President Bill Clinton.
On her Tumblr blog, she expresses hope and optimism about the future, despite such daunting problems as the spread of Ebola. The event, which draws business and nonprofit leaders from around the world, "reinforces my belief that if you get the right people working on a problem, anything is possible," she writes. Read more of Anne's reflections on the conference.


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Gary Allan on new songs, vocal surgery
When I talked to Gary Allan earlier this week, we covered more ground than was able to fit in the full feature that appears here on Tap Milwaukee. Here is more of the conversation we shared as he waited to make a Monday night appearance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon." (Click here to watch his spot on the show.)
As Allan prepares to visit The Rave tonight, he discussed why he thought "Tough Goodbye," the lead song (co-written by Cedarburg native Josh Thompson) from his Billboard chart-topping new album, "Set You Free," would be the first single. He also talked about how a vocal cord operation that he underwent just before recording the album has made him feel like a whole new singer, and his approach to Nashville after spending his early years (starting at 12 years old) playing honky tonks and clubs in California's Bakersfield-inspired country music scene. »Read Full Blog Post
2013 Holiday TV Schedule
We know you know Dasher and Dancer and Donner and Blitzen, but what about Gaga and Nestor and — Hasselhoff?
Just like those reindeer who work with Rudolph, they are just some of the personalities you can see in holiday-themed programming on your TV this time of year. »Read Full Article
WhiskeyBelles perform 'Mama Never Liked Christmas' from holiday album
Between "Let It Snow," "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and about a gazillion other tunes, there's no shortage of happy holiday songs to put a little spring in your Christmas step.
But what about music for the people who feel Christmas is just one big pain in the posterior? Local traditional country trio the WhiskeyBelles have just the song for them in a new original holiday song, "Mama Never Liked Christmas," from the group's new holiday album, "Nothin' Says Christmas Like Whiskey." »Read Full Article
Quilted Bear in Germantown to undergo huge renovation, reopen as Florian Park
Work is under way at the former Quilted Bear in Germantown, a popular wedding venue and restaurant for decades, as it becomes Florian Park.
The property at N111-W18611 Mequon Road, which closed a year ago, recently was sold to Project Design Management for $600,000. PDM also owns the neighboring Country Inn & Suites, and a frontage road will be built between the two venues to make travel easier between the two for guests of weddings, class reunions, corporate meetings and other events, said Ryan Rahl, director of operations. »Read Full Blog Post(8)
Free pizza all day at newly opened Blaze Pizza in Brookfield
Looking for an easy lunch or dinner? Blaze Pizza in Brookfield is offering free pizza all day Monday.
in celebration of its recent opening, Blaze Pizza in the Brownstones Shopping Center at 17530 W. Bluemound Road in Brookfield (between Metro Market and TJ Maxx) will be giving away free pizzas from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Visitors can try the custom-built 11-inch thin-crust pizzas (normally $7) for free. No purchase or coupons necessary. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
One Direction; Yo Gotti; Daughtry, Billie Joe & Norah and more
One Direction »Read Full Article
Packers ratings fluctuate - just like the team
Ratings for Sunday's tie game between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings on Fox affiliate WITI-TV (Channel 6) waxed and waned.
The average rating for the entire game was a 43.6, or about 394,000 television homes. The low was a 41.7 at 1:30 p.m. and the high was a 49.7 toward the end of the 4th quarter. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap for Today: Wine education, polka music and Santa plus paws
It's a short holiday week with Thanksgiving on Thursday. Which means today is the day to seach your closet for a pair of your largest, most comfortable pants.
Or maybe just carry on as though today is any other Monday. Here's how: »Read Full Blog Post


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L' Artisan Navegar
Thread: Fragrances With Peppery Notes?
psss a little secret ,,,,,,
Criminally underated & a peppery delight is Oscar for Men , by Oscar De La Renta .
It has no patchoul or sage as you want & its sillage & longevity are almost in the powerhouse range .
At just over $20 a bottle , my mind boggles as to why this one is still flying under the radar ?
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currently on shelf: daxon iridium super cedar thé noir 29 lemon in zest eldo hermann essenza royal leather mississippi medicine "on the road" oud shamash boadicea the victorious oxford millesime imperial sunday cologne hinoki hermes eau d'orange vert
Marc Jacob's Bang! comes immediatley to mind.
How about something from the spring and summer end of the spectrum:
Lalique White.
Oh so peppery.
Oh so good.
Current Favorites:
Reflection Man
Dior Homme
Millesime Imperial
Terre d'Hermes Parfum
Bergamote Soleil
Histoires De Parfums 1725
Penhaligon's Endymion
Royal Oud
Hanae Mori H.M. EDT
Another vote for Ormonde Man.
Facebook group: Perfume Lovers in Singapore, Unite! (You don't have to be in Singapore to join.)
Caron Poivre and Marc Jacobs Bang.
"No elegance is possible without it...perfume is a part of you." Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
My alltime pepper favorite: Penhaligon's Opus 1870
Calvin Klein Man
Bulgari Man
Ormonde Man
Jeez... what's with 'man' and pepper notes??
Hermes Poivre Samarcande is a great reference pepper, but the OP did want longevity - this one is wonderful but fleeting.
Gucci PH II
Lalique White ( the most incredible, slow on duration)
Memo Shams
to name a few!
"...all the animals come out at night........"
Another vote for Caron's Coup de Fouet.
Fine fragrance is alive; it breathes, unfolds and unravels with each passing hour....
Roja Dove
A Men A Taste of Fragrance
+1 Penhaligons Opus 1870
+1 Bang
Gucci Pour Homme I
Marc Jacobs Bang
Burberry The Beat
Tommy Bahama Original
Lalique White
Unscripted II
Currently on my Rotation:
1. Pure Zest
2. Aqva Amara
3. Lalique Homme
4. IM Sport
5. JV Artisan Aqva
6. Salvador Dali Agua Verde
L'Occitan. This one is pepper and Lavendar, straight up. Great quality ingredients, beautiful dry down and an incredible value at the price point.
Though it does have patchouli, I don't find it overbearing: Perles de Lalique by Lalique
It is fairly inexpensive - 100 ml for about $40.
Also like Bois D'Encens and Baie Rose 26 (you can find these in the Basenotes Splits forum.)
interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag
Go cheap, go Paco Rabanne Eau. I get a schooner's worth of pepper in this fresh 'fume. Longevity and sillage are great provided you let fly on the trigger.
Apart from that, I echo the recommendations for Piper Nigrum, Lalique White, Bang, The Beat and Molton Brown's Black Pepper line.
I also ♥ peppery scents!
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Bang or Epic man.
Molton Brown is good but poor longevity for me
poivre samarcante by hermes.
mark jacobs bang is ok,but dont even come close to it.
Amouage Honour Man is the best quality pepper fragrance with great longevity
Last edited by Kielecki; 23rd January 2013 at 02:40 AM.
The heart accord of Chanel Allure Homme is a smooth and elegant pepper.