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(AP) JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's president has signed off on regulations that will require cigarette packets to bear photographic warnings and ban the use of terms such as "mild" and "light" in connection with tobacco products.
Tobacco farmer groups and tobacco companies have opposed the regulations in a country with one of the highest rates of smoking the world.
The regulations posted on a government website late Wednesday continue to allow most forms of advertising and fall far short of those in many Western countries and Asian markets.
Tobacco companies will have 18 months to implement them.
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Welcome to the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction and Nonfiction Low-Residency program. If you are looking at our low-residency program, you may well be ready to ''Go Write Your Book.'' A number of elements distinguish our graduate degree from others. My favorite is the community itself. ''Check your egos at the door,'' our founding director, Bob Begiebing, would often say. Our students and faculty encourage each other, creating a personal and mutually respectful atmosphere, in which each member of our community can develop and better discover his or her true writing path.
As noted by our university president, Paul LeBlanc, ''SNHU programs are shaped by high ideals and grounded in eventual career success. The MFA is designed to support great writing and help people launch their publishing careers. This program's track record provides ample evidence that it is meeting these twin goals.''
You might also be interested in knowing that New Hampshire has long been a haven for writers and artists, with its remarkable enclave of over 7,000 published authors and three poet laureates residing in the state. Further, Southern New Hampshire University, voted by Fast Company as one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world next to Apple and Google, is increasingly becoming the place to study writing, with its Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing; its national and student literary journals; and its collaboration with the New Hampshire Writers' Project, a prominently active state and regional writers' organization housed on the university's campus.
There are distinguishing factors specific to the MFA program:
- Our students study in a small, uniquely focused program – narrative prose only (fiction and nonfiction).
- Our students graduate with a book-length manuscript and agent and editor contacts.
- Our advisory board of agents, editors, and book marketing professionals spends time with our students during our residencies, offering workshops and individualized consultations.
- Our faculty is "full-time adjunct" – meaning they teach 30 graduate credits over 12 months each year and are involved in every aspect of shaping, delivering, and improving the curriculum.
- We offer editorial, publication, and prize opportunities through Amoskeag – the university literary review, which publishes authors from around the nation.
- With superb faculty to support, we offer a track focusing on environmental writing to those students interested in pursuing their love of the natural world.
- We are one of the only MFA programs to offer a special track in Young Adult literature, one of the fastest growing genres in the marketplace.
We bring in two cohorts of 15 students a year, maintaining our small student-faculty ratio. Students who are accepted to our program begin their two-year course of study by joining us at either the five-day winter residency in January, or the seven-day summer residency in June. Following each residency, students work from home with the guidance of a faculty mentor. Students complete four residencies and four semesters during the program, graduating with a book-length manuscript of publishable quality and a 60-credit, terminal degree in writing, which qualifies students to teach at the college level.
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There is a line from ''The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,'' by Junot Diaz: ''You don't know how or why you know this thing, but that you know it cannot be doubted.'' This thing that we all share in common in this program is our need to write. We come with different stories, and most of us from different parts of the country, or world, but this thing cannot be doubted.
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Self dependent intelligent strong,
were the things i thought of you.
When i was young I always dreamed,
that I could be that way too.
You'd held strong,
through so very much,
You never got defeated.
And still kept that gentle touch,
that I had always needed.
To me you were a hero,
An inspiration to us all.
You helped me conquer my fears,
I thought you'd never fall.
But as we went through the years,
your memory faded.
Bringing more tears.
Seeing you like this we all really hated.
I knew that I should just let you go.
You would finally be pain free.
But no, no, no.
That would just be too hard for me.
So I willed you through hard times,
I prayed for you frequently.
And I hoped that it would be fine.
But it was just temporary.
Finally I realized,
that I had to just let go.
I had to cut off my ties.
Even it put me at a new low.
Now I know you're with god now.
And I know that is best,
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Hydrohrom s.r.o. has been awarded a contract worth US$527,420 by RenoEnergie a.s. for work at the Czech Republic's Plzen-Hradste small hydropower plant.
As per the contract, Hydrohrom will supply a turbine-generator and ancillary equipment for the project, which will be located near Pilsen on the Uhlava River.
The Plzen-Hradste's anticipated capacity was not specified.
RenoEnergie last solicited bids for the project in May.
Other projects RenoEnergie is advancing work on include 4.2-MW Roudnice, which will get increased flow capacity, a fish ladder and a canoe slalom course.


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Founder of Aikido (42): Passing On
by Kisshomaru Ueshiba
Aiki News #71 (June 1986)
This is the concluding chapter summary of the biography of Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido, written by his son and successor, Kisshomaru Ueshiba. We wish to thank Doshu sincerely for his kind permission to allow us to undertake and publish these translations.
In April of 1959 the publication of the Aikido Shimbun (Aikido Newspaper) began. When the first issue appeared the Founder was in an unusually good mood and jokingly encouraged us to make the newspaper become as big as the Asahi or Yomiuri publications. The Founder published his oral Dowa and Dobun serially each month until just before his death. They left a deep impression on the minds of readers.
At the same time he trained his students on his own initiative. We would forget his strictness which made it difficult to approach him when watching the Founder teach a student young enough to be his grandson. He would refer to himself as "This old man…" or make people laugh by saying, "This is my precious beard. Don't treat it roughly". However, whenever he gave an explanatory demonstration he was always quite severe.
The dojos the Founder most often visited around this period were those of Mr. Seiseki Abe (Suita, Osaka) and that of Mr. Michio Hikitsuchi (Shingu, Wakayama). Mr. Abe is a famous high school calligraphy teacher (See AIKI NEWS No. 45). The Founder began studying calligraphy with him about 1963 and stayed with him very often. O-Sensei called the Kumano Juku Dojo of Mr. Hikitsuchi his own dojo and stayed there very frequently beginning around 1955. The Founder had Mr. Hikitsuchi put up a plate bearing his name until his death. It still remains there today.
On February 28, 1961 the Founder flew to Hawaii in order to participate in the opening ceremony of the main dojo in Honolulu. At his sending-off party he gave the following speech:
"I am going to Hawaii in order to build "a silver bridge". At present I am trying to construct "a golden bridge" in Japan but from now on I want to do the same abroad. What I mean to say is that I want to build a bridge between the east and west through aikido. Aikido builds bridges in all countries and unites the world through harmony and love…."
The trip for the promotion of aikido throughout Hawaii lasted about 40 days (he returned to Japan on April 11th) and left a strong impression on the people of the islands.
On November 3, 1964, the Founder was decorated in recognition of "his services in the establishment of aikido". Around this period he began to spend more time in Tokyo than in Iwama. Although he still wished to do farming work in Iwama, I think that he made up his mind and accepted the trend of the times with respect to the development of aikido.
On December 15, 1967, a modern, three-storey building was completed for the dojo. About 37 years had passed since the Founder had built the "Kobukan" dojo on this site. "Well done," were the words he spoke on this occasion and they were the only words of praise I ever received from the Founder in his lifetime.
A celebration of the completion of the new dojo was held on January 12, 1968 and the Founder spoke the following words.
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I started a new job late last year. I found out that during the first two weeks of December that I would have to be in New Jersey for training. Two weeks away from Chad and my dog would be hard. This was also the ideal time to put up Christmas decorations, so needless to say, I was quite bummed. I left and begged Chad that if he got the urge to decorate anything, please let it be something small, no tree, no lights, maybe a wreath.
So, that Friday, December 12, 2008, I was driving home to Northern Virginia from North Jersey. Chad told me that he would be in meetings for the morning and he had a conference call at 1:00 pm, so he would be unreachable. He works about 20 minutes from home, so he said he would try to get out after his call and meet me at home to start our weekend. I gave him the heads up when I was about thirty minutes away. He text back with, I will try to be home soon.
I pulled up to an "empty house" and some packages on the front step. I thought nothing as I walked through the foyer door to some lights and garland strung along the walls and banisters. I looked up to find special ornaments with pieces of a phrase on them. Now, I was thinking to myself, "Okay, Chad must have realized how hard two weeks away in a grueling environment was and wanted me to smile when I got home so he threw up some lights."
Well, I started to walk up the stairs and read the phrase as follow: "I know that we said we were going to wait, but I just couldn't help it and showed no restraint. So lend me your hand to decorate our tree, and maybe the other to spend your life with me!" Before I even read the last line, I was at the top of the stairs and saw a tree and candles lit. I immediately thought to myself, Chad wouldn't light candles and leave for work! Would he? So I yelled out, "Hello, Chad?" From the dark corner, I heard the song, "You Have Stolen My Heart," playing and Chad emerged in a suit and started talking about how we met and how much we've endured to get to where we are. He then got down on one knee and popped the question. On the verge of tears, I grabbed him and kissed him! He had champagne in the kitchen and reservations at a French restaurant down the street. It was perfect!


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Popular HTML editors make it really easy to include forms on your Web site. Just place a few textboxes, checkboxes, and a submit button and you're done. Or are you?
The form data still needs to be processed. That's where many beginning webmasters run into problems. We'll answer some of the most common questions about attributes, CGI scripts, and other options for form processing.
What does the term "form processing" mean, anyway?
There are two sides to form processing: the client-side and the server-side.
The client-side is the actual form that a visitor sees on your Web page. The form accepts the information entered by the user and the browser sends the data to the server for processing.
The server-side is a little more complicated, mainly because you have so many options for form processing. When the browser sends the form data to the server, it (the browser) assumes the server knows what to do with it. The server relies on you, the webmaster, to provide those instructions.
If you don't, the user may see an error message. Even worse, the form may seem to submit without a problem, but nothing really happens on the server-side. Keep this from happening by becoming familiar with the attributes that go with the FORM tag, what they mean, and what they do.
What is the ACTION attribute?
The ACTION attribute specifies the URL that will receive and process the form data. Use ACTION to send the form to a processing script or to email the form data, like this:
Note: when you use a MAILTO address with the ACTION attribute, no other processing takes place. The browser sends an email to the address (or addresses) you specify, but the form data isn't saved anywhere else. Also, some browsers don't recognize MAILTO links.
When visitors take the time to fill out a form, most won't appreciate it much if you waste their time.
So how do I send an email AND get the form to process at the same time?
Some sort of form-mail script works best for this. These are usually short CGI scripts that are installed on the server-side. Check with your Web host because the vast majority of hosting companies give clients access to one or more form processing scripts. If your host doesn't, it may be time to look for a new Web host!
The CreativeProgrammers Web site offers a quick form-mail script tutorial that explains how a form-mail script works.
Depending on your Web host and the complexity of your form, you may want to sign up with an online form-hosting service. These companies remotely host your forms. Your forms appear on your Web site, but the form data is processed by the form host's server instead of your own Web host. Most companies charge a fee for this service that ranges from about $20 per year to $100 or more.
A form-hosting service may be a good idea for a beginning webmaster who needs to generate really complicated forms (like multi-page forms), write the information to a database, or conduct other kinds of specialized processing.
How does the form data get sent?
You decide that and set up the process using the METHOD attribute.
The ACTION attribute defines how the form will be processed and the method attribute defines how the form data will be sent. Use METHOD to tell the browser which HTTP method to use to submit the form data.
METHOD has two possible values: GET and POST.
What's the difference between POST and GET?
With POST, you send the contents of the form as a data stream. Form data sent using GET becomes part of the URL.
Although GET is the default, it's an older method that's deprecated (marked for deletion in future HTML versions) in HTML 4.0.
POST is often the preferred way to send information especially if it's sensitive data or contained in a particularly long form.
My HTML book says to never use method="get." Why?
Besides being deprecated, GET is less secure. It adds all the form data to the URL and sends it all to be processed.
The URL of a form processed using GET looks like this:
The question mark precedes the form data and the ampersand sign separates the values of the different form fields.
That raises two serious issues:
Many Web reference sources advise you to avoid GET entirely. We disagree.
Is GET ever a good way to submit form data?
Yes! There are times when GET really is the best option.
The GET method is particularly useful for online search functions. Since GET adds the form data to the URL, searchers are able to bookmark and save the URL with the form data. We use it for our search functions here at the NetMechanic site.
Search engines and the search functions on individual Web sites often use the GET method for just this reason. It gives searchers the opportunity to save the search results for later reference.
Another reason for using GET is to avoid problems when your visitors
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This warning occurs because the POST method has some extra security
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The easy way is to put the confirmation page URL as the value for the ACTION attribute. But there's a problem. The form data doesn't get stored anywhere else because you haven't specified any sort of processing script or action.
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A hidden field that specifies a confirmation page looks like this:
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I use FrontPage for my forms. Why do I care about this?
FrontPage is a good WYSIWYG editor for beginners. They can quickly lay out and post a working Web site without actually writing any HTML code themselves. The downside is that webmasters give up a lot of control and may have problems debugging the editor-generated pages.
HTML Toolbox checks your HTML code for errors and alerts you to browser-specific HTML tags that may break your page in some browsers. It works whether you've hand-coded your page or used an editor like FrontPage. But you also need to be alert to editors that add their own proprietary tags to certain page elements.
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Teen Moms Still Want College Degrees, Study FindsPregnant at 16? Poof! There goes your future. You obviously care more about changing diapers than earning a college degree. Obviously? Not so fast. Researchers at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island say that's not so. They interviewe...Teen moms want to go to college. The question is, how?
Students Cruising Through College With Little Asked of Them, Little Learned, Book SaysThat diploma won't mean much if your college student skips on the studying. Credit: Getty When you phone your daughter at college at 3 p.m., only to discover she's just rolling out of bed, or you ask your university-attending son what ...Growing numbers of undergraduates are moving through college without working particularly hard, and without key learning skills, such as complex reasoning and critical thinking.
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Army Pvt. Allen-Jarvee Thomas graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga.
For nine weeks, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions.
Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.
Thomas, the son of Danielle Powell and brother of Brandon Shields of Crestview, is the grandson of Inell Shields of Warrensburg, Mo.
He is a 2014 graduate of Penn Foster High School, Scranton, Ohio.


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Why ESRI's GeoData.gov – Data.gov Contract Gets the Community Upset
Ever since the news broke that ESRI recieved a Whitehouse contract to:
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California-based ESRI began last summer tying Data.gov to Geodata.gov, the geospatial information gateway, said company President Jack Dangermond in an interview with Nextgov….
Anyone will be able to create mashups on the free website ArcGIS.com, which ESRI launched on Saturday.
the community has been pretty upset. I've seen the same angry sentiment repeated over Twitter, IRC, Skype and beers.
This made me begin to wonder why were folks – myself included getting so riled up over this. ArcGIS.com looks like a great site that makes geospatial data more accessible to the public. Data.gov is making more government data available – marriage made in heaven.
So, what is the problem? At the core the deal and the platform violate the two guiding principles of Gov 2.0. – transparency and open data. When the Obama administration announced their "Transparency and Open Government" initiative there was a hugely positive response from the community.
The deal outlined by the NextGov article violates the first premise – transparency. The ESRI deal was a sole sourced contract that was not competed, but instead an extension to a six year old contract for GeoData.gov from 2004. What was the the process for selecting ESRI for this critical service? What were the requirements? What are the benefits of their solution? Are open standards being supported? No clue on any of it because there has been zero transparency on the contract.
No only was the process not transparent ESRI gets access to government data for ArcGIS.com that is not being made available to anyone else. Worse yet ESRI had access and was working on integration for a year according to the article. No other citizen, project, NGO or company had access to the data to integrate into other existing projects. Keep in mind the current incarnation of Geodata.gov is a data catalog of metadata not a data repository. So, there is no easy way for anyone to systematically pull all the geodata cataloged in Geodata.gov.
A second critical aspect of open government is open data. Open data means the raw data available in open standard formats. So, ESRI got a sole sourced contract and a head start integrating the data into their new Web portal. Some might find it a bit sketchy, but big deal we can get over it. At least the data will be available to the public to repurpose and innovate on top of…right?
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He (Dangermond) said he expects Geodata.gov's map services, which enable Web-based applications from different sources to communicate with each other, to be available on Data.gov within two months.
This is an important nuance. Data won't be available – "map services" will be available. So what is a "map service" you might ask? A "map service" is a proprietary data stream from an ArcGIS server. A service that can only be produced by ESRI technology. You can overlay the "mapping service" on say a Google or Bing basemap, but there is no way to repurpose the data or open it unless you have ESRI technology. Building anything with the data requires reliance on ESRI technology. So, where will citizens be able to consume this data – ArcGIS.com of course. What does ArcGIS.com support? Let's look at the screenshots:
ArcGIS.com supports ArcGIS server "mapping services", ESRI mapping applications, and ESRI mobile applications. All proprietary and none of which can be utilized by anything other than an ESRI product. The "mapping services" coming out of the Geodata.gov work – all the same. No standards and no support for anything other than ESRI licensed software – yeah we asked.
Ah, but you say you can load files, and maybe even download files. At least there would be support for shapefiles, and other apps can read those….nope:
If the data could be open by another technology obviously that is bad. In short this is what has the community quite upset about the whole affair. A non-competitive bid with zero transparency to put government data in proprietary formats that are not accessible to the community, unless you want to buy ESRI technology or look at their proprietary site.
The good news? This is all easy to fix. Make the data available in open formats. Make it available in a raw format for download. Federate the content through open standards so other projects can tap into the data feeds (not map services). Make contracts open opportunities that are competitively bid with clear requirements.
ESRI has lots of great technology but citizens should not be forced to use it in order to access public government data. This is the fundamental principle behind open data and transparent government. ESRI is an important part of the ecosystem, but it is not a monoculture. If the government wants innovation to thrive and sustained economic growth they need to truly open data and create a level playing field.
15 Responses to Why ESRI's GeoData.gov – Data.gov Contract Gets the Community Upset
Learon Dalby says:
This is the second blog post I have read on this issue. The first was James Fee's http://bit.ly/ceThaT which I failed to comment on (my bad James). Sometimes if it doesn't feel right there is reason why. Each of the blog post have clearly demonstrated why this 'deal' doesn't feel right.
No doubt ESRI is a great company. Many of us use their products, but this deal doesn't make us feel any better about using them. Open is open and I believe that means the raw data can be accessed via any number of protocols. Yes, being open is a challenge. It might even require doing the same things a number of different ways, but it also feels right.
Eskimo says:
Maybe you will be able to download shapefiles. A Layer Package (lpk) can be just a zip of a shapefile (which is itself an awkward group of files) plus some symbology which could be ignored.
I can see the worry that this will just be another webstacle – image maps or keyhole sets without access to the full source data – but this may be the data owner's wish, not the software vendor's preference.
undisclosed says:
Shape files are a horrid format that should go away. Sure, it served a purpose at one time, but that time has come and gone. And the company that wrought this proprietary format upon the world, E.S.R.I. will not support it.
Indeed, see my latest blogspot on same …
David Sonnen says:
It seems like we should know what "open" means by now. This scenario ("open" label, opaque process) has been repeated dozens of times with the same and, by now predictable, results.
Need a lesson? Try searching for cloud+ultimate+lock-in and read the first 10-500 results.
Personally, I am a huge fan of Data.gov, Geodata.gov and ESRI. I believe that each group does want to make a positive difference. But, open data means the data is open to any use, not just through mapping services or "free".
Making data really open is harder than providing a convenient way to access the data through a single platform. But, if the Feds want their data to be open, they need to make the effort needed.
Otherwise, the Feds need to say "convenient" — not "open".
Users really do know the difference.
The Lone Geographer says:
Wow, it's not even a very good platform. It's not scalable, open, or extensible.
What a shame.
Sean Gorman says:
Thanks for all the good points. I hesitated for a while about writing this post because I did not want it to come across as a case of sour grapes. I think that ESRI did a nice job with ArcGIS.com. It is a huge improvement over ArcGISonline.com and you have to give them points for seeing innovation in the market place and responding to it.
Competition is good in my mind. It demonstrates there is real opportunity in the space. Geo is no longer niche and all these are great indicators for everyone in the space. It is exciting seeing companies like SimpleGeo and SoGeo getting significant funding from notable VC's.
While this is all great. If we are not vigilant about keeping data open we kill the real opportunity in the space for everyone. There may be some short term gains in pushing proprietary formats, but it keeps GIS as an IT niche, and prevents us from being a part of a much bigger market and opportunity.
It is also not just about business. As we've seen in Haiti, Chile, Afghanistan and countless other disasters – open and portable data saves lives. No one has times trying to find a proprietary tool and the appropriate license when responding to a disaster. When there is no Internet – "mapping services" don't work. This is why access to raw data is so critical. It makes data portable, remixable and reusable in any situation.
Hopefully our government and others truly embraces the concept and these contracts and approaches to government data are speed bumps as we evolve to concept.
Marten Hogeweg siad it best in his blog
"ArcGIS.com provides a great collection of resources and, as Jack explains below, allows other people to discover the work ESRI users are doing."
emphasis on "ESRI users", this is not meant to be open to start with…
Sean Gorman says:
Well at least we can all agree that it is not open. I have no beef with ArcGIS.com. It is ESRI's tool – they spend the money and can use it how ever they like.
My beef is when a Federal contract is created to make open government data delivered there not accessible in open formats. Especially when that same privilege is not made available to the myriad sites that do make government data available in open formats.
ESRI has explicitly tied ArcGIS.com into their GeoData.gov and Data.gov contract as a delivery mechanism to citizens. It is not "ESRI user" data. It is government data that my and many others tax payer dollars paid for. I don't think many tax payers would be happy about their money going to lining ArcGIS.com with content.
You can't have both a closed portal just for your users and use it as mechanism to deliver open government data to citizens. The two are mutually exclusive by any reasonable public policy test.
Exactly – someone in the US GAO has lost the plot, and/or forgot to check all the marks in their to-do list. List which our industry took pains to draw up on behalf of the citizens. And they/we are the paymasters not the guv… Other contract extensions in US Air Force Academy and Forestry Service, I think, followed that same path, shall we call it of least resistance?
charles says:
This closed no-bid contract process is not just bad data policy, but a continuation of the same old corrupt practices. ESRI is getting payback for political favors or contributions, and the public is suffering the consequences.
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6. The ink-set of claim 1 further including about 0.1 to 1 wt % of a surfactant and about 0.1 to 0.4 wt % of a biocide.
7. The ink-set of claim 6 wherein said glycol is selected from the group consisting of diethylene glycol and dipropylene glycol and said glycol ether is selected from the group consisting of 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol and triethylene glycol butyl ether.
8. The ink-set of claim 7 wherein said vehicle consists essentially of about 8 wt % of 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol, about 0.3 wt % of said biocide, and the balance water.
9. An improved ink-jet dye-set for ink-jet printing including (a) a mixture of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 and Acid Red 52 dyes and (b) Acid Yellow 23 dye.
10. The dye-set of claim 9 wherein said mixture of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 and Acid Red 52 dyes ranges in a ratio from about 2:1 to 5:1 of hydrolyzed-RRl80:AR52.
11. The dye-set of claim 10 wherein said ratio is about 4:1.
The present invention relates to ink-jet printing, and, in particular, to a specific dye set suitable for use with plain and coated papers and transparencies.
In the field of color printing, it is desirable to achieve as large of a color gamut as possible without sacrificing necessary ink performance parameters. It is also desirable to achieve secondary colors from the primaries which the consumer readily associates with a name such as blue or red. When the color ink is used in a digital printing device, that is, one in which a dot of color is either present or absent, the ability of the primaries to give recognizable secondaries is even more important. In printing processes such as lithography, dye transfer, and some types of thermal transfer, it is possible to vary spot size so that less is demanded of the primary colored inks when producing a good secondary.
If such an ink is to be used in an ink-jet printing device, characteristics such as crusting, long term stability, and materials compatibility must also be addressed. If the ink is to be used in a thermal ink-jet printer, the further constraint of being thermally stable (kogation-resistant) is added.
In general, a successful ink set for color ink-jet printing must have the following properties: good crusting resistance, good stability, the proper viscosity, the proper surface tension, recognizable secondaries, high color saturation, little color-to-color bleed, rapid drytime, no negative reaction with the vehicle, be highly soluble in the vehicle, consumer-safe, and low strike-through. While formation of colors on plain papers is required, it is also necessary that the ink set be useful on other print media as well, such as on transparency media. When placed into a thermal ink-jet system, the ink set must also be kogation-resistant.
Some of the conditions may be met by vehicle design; other conditions must be met by the proper selection and combination of the dyes.
While it is fairly simple and obvious to make one ink which will satisfy the above conditions, it becomes very difficult to produce a set of inks to be used together to give three acceptable primaries and which will satisfy these conditions. Indeed, the color and overall appearance of hard copy output are critical to its ultimate acceptability and, thus, saleability in the marketplace.
In accordance with the invention, a set of dyes is provided that satisfies the criteria given above when used in a vehicle employing about 5 to 11% glycols and/or glycol ethers and the balance water. The dye set comprises about 2 to 3% of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180, about 0.3 to 1% Acid Red 52, with the ratio of hydrolyzed-RRl80:AR52 ranging from about 2:1 to 5:1, about 1.75 to 2.75% of Acid Yellow 23, and about 1.75 to 2.5% of Acid Blue 9.
The advantages of this dye set include brighter and truer primary and secondary colors on all types of print media and it is compatible on film with higher chroma yellow (Acid Yellow 23).
The ink set of the invention comprises a set of dyes in a vehicle containing about 5 to 11% glycols and/or glycol ethers and the balance water. The following dyes are employed: (1) about 2 to 3 wt. % of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180, about 0.3 to 1 wt. % of Acid Red 52, with the ratio of hydrolyzed-RR180:AR52 ranging from about 2:1 to 5:1; (2) about 1.75 to 2.75 wt. % of Acid Yellow 23; and (3) about 1.75 to 2.5 wt. % Acid Blue 9.
All concentrations herein are in weight percent, unless otherwise indicated. The purity of all components is that employed in normal commercial practice for thermal ink-jet inks. The dyes are purified in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Pat. No. 4,685,968, which employs a reverse osmosis process. With some dyes (specifically, Acid Yellow 23), a conventional ion exchange process is required after purification.
The inks may also include one or more biocides, fungicides, and/or slimicides, as is commonly practiced in the art. Microbial reagents include, but are not limited to, NUOSEPT (Nuodex, Inc., a division of Huls Americal), UCARCIDE (Union Carbide), VANCIDE (RT Vanderbilt Co.), and PROXEL (ICI Americas). About 0.1 to 0.4 wt. % of the microbial agent is employed.
Further, about 0.1 to 1 wt. % of one or more surfactants may be added to the ink. Examples include silicones, such as SILWET L-77 and SILWET L-707 (available from Union Carbide), AEROSOL OT (available from American Cyanamid), and acetylenic polyethylene oxides, such as SURFYNOL 465, available from Air Products & Chemicals. The surfactant provides better bleed characteristics and lower drop volume to reduce paper cockle.
The magenta dye is a mixture of Reactive Red 180 and Acid Red 52. Specifically, the Reactive Red 180 dye as received requires hydrolysis with a stoichiometric amount of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to stabilize the pH (which tends to drift downward with time). The hydrolyzed form is referred to herein as hydrolyzed-RR180, or h-RR180.
Hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 is preferably present in an amount of about 2.25 wt. %, while the concentration of Acid Red 52 is preferably about 0.6 wt. %. The ratio of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 to Acid Red 52 is preferably about 4:1. This particular concentration of magenta dyes renders the best compromise with respect to achieving a chromatic and truer hue of blue without sacrificing the hue and chroma of red below the range of acceptability.
It is not possible to use other magenta dyes, such as Acid Red 52 and/or Direct Red 227, in place of hydrolyzedReactive Red 180 for several reasons:
1. When printing red color on transparency film, Acid Red 52 dye reacts with Acid Yellow 23, causing disappearance of yellow dye, thus, shifting hue. The hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 dye reduces the rate of reaction between the two dyes.
2. The red hue with Acid Red 52 alone with Acid Yellow 23 on plain paper and transparency film is less chromatic (lower chroma). A blend of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 with Acid Red 52 has been found to provide brighter reds.
3. The use of Direct Yellow 86 in place of Acid Yellow 23 renders lower chroma yellow and red on both plain and special paper.
4. The Direct Red 227 magenta dye is unsuitable with respect to poor decap (crusting at the nozzles of the pen) at the higher concentrations required with vehicles that contain low surface tension/higher wetting amphiphilic additives. Inks containing these vehicles provide higher dot gain (faster lateral spreading), thus, require smaller drop volume to render the desired drop size. Therefore, to achieve similar saturation, a higher dye load of Direct Red 227 is required.
Acid Yellow 23 by itself is a very high chroma yellow. The parameters of an ink made with this dye are quite satisfactory. Preferably, the concentration of Acid Yellow 23 is about 2 wt %.
Acid Blue 9 has been found to be a good cyan dye having high chroma and good hue. Its use alone is adequate for the cyan dye in the dye set of the invention. Preferably, the concentration of Acid Blue 9 is about 2 wt %.
These dyes include counter-ions for charge balance. In the as-received form, these dyes have sodium counter-ions. However, in some instances, it may be desirable to replace some or all of the counter-ions on the dye with another counter-ion, such as tetramethyl ammonium (as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,761,180), lithium (as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,994,110), or another appropriate ion.
In the case of the present invention, the sodium (Na) form of Acid Blue 9 may be employed. Similarly, the sodium forms of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 and Acid Red 52 are used. For Acid Yellow 23, the tetramethyl ammonium (TMA) form is preferably used, in order to reduce crusting.
In setting the concentrations of the dyes in the various inks, it is desired that the inks provide the follow results:
______________________________________Dye nmmax Abs (�0.005)______________________________________AY23-TMA 428 0.026AB9-Na 630 0.248AR52-Na 566 0.209H-RR180-Na 540 0.152______________________________________
The vehicle of the ink contains the following components:
about 5 to 11 wt. % of at least one glycol and/or glycol ether,
about 0.1 to 0.4 wt. % of a biocide,
about 0.1 to 1 wt. % of at least one surfactant, and
the balance water.
Preferably, the glycol is selected from the group consisting of diethylene glycol and dipropylene glycol, while the glycol ether is selected from the group consisting of 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol and triethylene glycol butyl ether.
Most preferably, the vehicle comprises about 8 wt % of 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol, along with about 0.3 wt. % of the biocide, the balance being water.
An added feature of the ink-set of the invention is that it may be used with printers that have a heating means to dry the ink, as well as with printers that have no such heating means. In either event, the resulting colors, both primary and secondary, are bright and true.
The specific dye set disclosed herein is expected to find commercial use in ink-jet printers
Inks having the following compositions were prepared, in which the vehicle comprised the following composition:
8 wt. % 2-(2-butoxyethoxy)ethanol,
0.3 wt. % NUOSEPT 95,
0.2 wt. % SILWET L-77, and
the balance water.
The yellow inks contained 2% Acid Yellow 23 dye. The magenta inks contained a mixture of hydrolyzed-Reactive Red 180 (2.25%) and Acid Red 52 (0.6%) dyes. The cyan inks contained 2% Acid Blue 9 dye. Direct Yellow 86 dye was used for comparison.
Print samples produced using inks employing the different dyes and dye blends were measured in the L*a*b* colorspace from print samples. For comparative purposes, ΔE* is obtained by taking the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences of two samples. The L*a*b* coordinates for the primary and secondary colors obtained using the various magentas are summarized in Table I below. The data were measured on a Minolta chromameter, D65 Illuminant, full density print samples on Gilbert bond paper. In considering hue changes, one looks primarily at the a* and b* coordinates; as a general rule, a shift of 2 units is easily visible.
TABLE I______________________________________L*a*b* Coordinates.Dye L* a* b*______________________________________A: CYANAB9Primary Cyan 57.33 -13.6 -44.5Secondary Blue 32.98 20.6 -35.2(Cyan + Magenta: AB9 + AR52 +h-RR180)B: YELLOWAY23Primary Yellow 92.38 -10.8 86.8DY86Primary Yellow 84.5 1.32 50.5C: MAGENTAAR52Primary Magenta 53.02 64.3 -39.0Secondary Red 51.07 47.1 21.5(Magenta + Yellow: AR52 + DY86)Secondary Blue 35.43 32.91 -59.5(Magenta + Cyan: AR52 + AB9)h-RR180Primary Magenta 51.80 52.9 3.95Secondary Red 50.34 52.7 31.22(Magenta + Yellow: h-RR180 +AY23)Secondary Blue 31.27 16.98 -25.03(Magenta + Cyan: h-RR180 + AB9)h-RR180 + AR52Primary Magenta 51.65 56.1 -8.85Secondary Red 50.15 47.8 27.8(Magenta + Yellow: h-RR180 +AR52 + AY23)Secondary Blue 32.9 20.6 -35.2(Magenta + Cyan: h-RR180 +AR52 + AB9)______________________________________ It is apparent from the L*a*b* values that AY23 is a more chromatic yellow. From the forgoing data, it is clear that the mixture of magentas provides the best combination of secondary red and secondary blue, compared with either magenta alone.
Thus, there has been disclosed an ink-set for use in ink-jet printers. It will be readily apparent to those skilled in this art that various changes and modifications of an obvious nature may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, and all such changes and modifications are considered to fall within the scope of this invention, as defined by the appended claims.
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Some Pine Valley golfers wary of proposal to restore stream
By Gareth McGrath, Staff Writer (email@example.com)
The second phase of a stream restoration project at Pine Valley Country Club has run into choppy waters.
But officials hope they can navigate a calmer course before more of the South Wilmington golf course's back nine washes into Hewletts Creek.
The streams that crisscross the country club, which straddles the middle branch of the tidal creek, have been eroding for years.
Course superintendent Keith Noxon said that as more and more development takes place in the creek's 2,000-acre drainage basin, an increasing amount of runoff – along with any contaminants it carries – is pouring into the tributaries.
"The water has to get to Hewletts Creek somehow, and a big amount of it is coming through here," he said, standing by the eroded stream bank along the course's ninth hole.
Not only is the water eating away at the banks, creating deep gullies in places, but it is flowing too quickly to allow sediment and other potential pollutants to drop out.
Worried about what the high-speed flow was doing to water quality farther downstream, several organizations teamed up four years ago to stabilize about 800 feet of crumbled stream bank.
Along with planting low-lying shrubs and trees, crews also created a wide meandering path for the stream that slows down the water flow, allowing the creek to filter out pollutants.
The result has been a largely maintenance-free natural buffer that helps control flooding.
"What the project did was restore the natural function of the stream," said Chris O'Keefe, a New Hanover County planner and coordinator of the county's Tidal Creeks Program.
The roughly $150,000 project, funded through the state's Clean Water Management Trust Fund, also re-created the waterway's natural flood plain – albeit by eating into some of the golf course's playing area.
"It gives you a double benefit," said Barbara Doll, a water quality specialist with N.C. Sea Grant. "You get additional storage area and a chance to cleanse the water."
With the restoration of one of the streams that feeds the middle branch of Hewletts Creek, officials now want to tackle the middle branch itself.
But the proposed project is both expensive, more than $700,000, and potentially intrusive.
Mr. Noxon said the restoration of more than 2,500 feet of stream bank could force Pine Valley to shut several holes between mid-November and mid-March.
Some members of the private club also are worried about the loss of additional playing surface and potential privacy if a lot of the heavy undergrowth that now envelops sections of the stream – and screens the course from nearby homes – is removed.
A delay in the project hasn't helped the relationship between the state Environmental Enhancement Program, which would finance the project, and the golf course, either.
That's led to some grumbling among Pine Valley's members about whether to approve the project for this fall.
By funding the stream restoration, the state could use the work as compensation for impacts tied to N.C. Department of Transportation projects.
EEP spokesman Tad Boggs said the state remains interested in working with the club.
City officials also are trying to facilitate the project, which could have a host of positive water-quality impacts, said Dave Mayes, Wilmington's stormwater services manager.
While admitting that the stream restoration work could cause hardships for golfers, Mr. Noxon said he feels the project's benefits vastly outweigh any drawbacks.
"It's a win-win for us and definitely one for the environment because this erosion isn't going away," he said.
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Superb ski chalet in Corvara, the Alta Badia
Stunning views from a spectacular location,
attractive en suite bedrooms, excellent food over sociable dinners,
the outstanding local knowledge of hospitable and welcoming hosts
Chalet Angelo – Corvara
- 150m from the piste and chairlift
- Excellent 3 course evening meals
- Complimentary wine with dinner
- Continental breakfast
- En suite bedrooms
- Bar, Sauna and steam room
Chalet Angelo is in a magnificent location perched just above Corvara in a tranquil hamlet 150 metres from the piste and chairlift, yet just 10 or 15 minutes from the village by foot, 30 seconds by ski – or 2 minutes by car.
You can ski from the door down into Corvara and directly onto the Sella Ronda or take the Alara chairlift up onto the Pralongià Plateau where intermediate skiers will thrive. The Pralongià Plateau is a labyrinth of gentle pistes interspersed with quaint and hospitable mountain huts, each with sensational views and excellent food which is refreshingly cheaply priced. Certain runs on this plateau snake back to Chalet Angelo on their way down to Corvara, the largest and most vibrant resort in the Alta Badia and a superb launchpad for the many jewels of Dolomiti Superski.
The views from the chalet in winter are breathtaking. You have a bird's eye view over the villages of Corvara and Colfosco right up to the Gardena Pass with the vast flanks of the Sella Massif to the left (south) and the equally impressive Puez-Odle Group to the right (north). The south eastern turret of the latter is Corvara's signature peak and it dominates the village in a sensational way. Few properties in Corvara allow you to enjoy this spectacular panorama in a better way than Chalet Angelo.
Bedrooms here are comfortable and all have en suite bathrooms. Each afternoon (not Thursday) you can make use of the sauna and steam room to help rest weary muscles after a day in the mountains. Or you might simply relax in the chalet's bar and sitting room with a cup of tea and a piece of cake, or something stronger from the bar.
We hold Office Hour in the bar at Chalet Angelo, every evening (not Thursday) between 6and 7pm. Here you can chat with our staff about your ski itineraries for the following day, pour over piste maps and enjoy a sociable drink in the company of like-minded people.
The atmosphere around the table is informal and it is easy to unwind: people with largely common interests (and inspired by a beautiful day in the mountains) talk and laugh over good food and drink until well after coffee has been served. Over the years we have regularly been overwhelmed by the heartwarming and friendly atmosphere that prevails in our chalets. Frankly, it is a delight to witness the friendships that are built on these chalet holidays. Goodbyes amongst guests and hosts are often quite emotional!
You can stay in Chalet Angelo on a halfboard basis with airport transfers from Venice Marco Polo or Venice Treviso Airports included. Our chalets either have a traditional bar or a casual honesty bar. Also, there is wifi available on request. Towels and bed linen are provided by us.
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians Season 7 Premiere Date Announced!
We love all of the series in the Kardashian TV franchise, but there's something extra special about having the entire family around in Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Fortunately, Season 7 isn't far away! E! just announced that the hit reality show will begin its next season on Sunday, May 20, at a new time at 9 p.m. That's only 44 days and counting, y'all! More good news: Each episode has been extended to one hour, and the season will feature 18 episodes, making it the longest season ever!
As usual, the entire brood has wasted no time promoting their new venture. The entire K-Dash krew — including Lamar and Scott — got dolled up for a Kardashian family photoshoot to promote their upcoming season. This year, their chosen theme was what Kim Kardashian called "country family picnic" when she posted the official promo shots on her official blog.
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You know, books are good things. You can learn from them. For example, before I read this book, whenever Copernicus's name came up I thought something like "Copernicus, sure. He said the earth goes around the sun and got in trouble with the church. Later Kepler put ellipses in instead of circles, Newton did the mathematics, and truth triumphed."
Not quite. Were it not for the subject of this biography, Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574), Copernicus's heliocentric idea, widely cited as monumental ("a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science" — Wikipedia), might have subsided and Copernicus could have joined the vast horde of those whose thoughts and writings have been forgotten. (Oresme in the 14th century and Cusa in the 15th had written about a moving earth, but their ideas did not take hold.) In fact, we could still be using the earth-centered Ptolemaic system: I'm sure that with the addition of some more epicycles and perhaps an epiepicycle or two it could have been made sufficiently accurate for all practical purposes. If you respond, "Nonsense!" you may be too heavily influenced by the view, all too commonly held, that the story of the past is one of unremitting progress, with a few small setbacks here and there, culminating at last in the perfection of us. History books are good things when they remind us that neither we nor our world are inevitable.
Rheticus's father, Georg Iserin, committed crimes sufficiently serious that his head was cut off in 1528 and, in the custom of the time, his name was also cut off and could no longer be used. Thus his son took his mother's maiden name, de Porris, which he occasionally Germanized as von Lauchen, both meaning "of the leeks". But he preferred to call himself after the region in which he was born, at one time the Roman province of Rhaetia, and became Georg Rheticus. Names were more mutable in the Renaissance than they are now, which is why Rheticus appears in Cardano's autobiography as "Giorgio Porro".
Rheticus's mother had money enough so that her son could study in Zurich for three years and then attend the University of Wittenberg, becoming a master of arts in 1536. His mathematical talents were so marked that on graduation he was offered a professorship of mathematics there, which he accepted. In 1538–39 he was given leave to travel and visit scholars in southern Germany, and his leave was extended for a year in 1539 so that he could travel to the north. In 1539, he met Copernicus (1473–1543) and spent two years with him.
Over the years, Copernicus had made his heliocentric views known, but only by correspondence. If Rheticus had not turned up, there can be little doubt that he never would have published them, with consequences we can only guess at. But Rheticus, young and energetic, did publish a short account of them in 1540 and he prodded Copernicus to prepare a more complete version. Copernicus did so and Rheticus did the considerable amount of work needed to get it into print. Publication of De revolutionibus occurred in 1543. The legend is that Copernicus saw the printed version for the first time on the day that he died. Be that as it may, it was entirely because of Rheticus that the Copernican revolution could start to take place when it did.
It wasn't fear of religious opposition that kept Copernicus from publishing. In fact, a cardinal of the Roman church had encouraged him to break into print. At the time, how the sun and the earth comported themselves seems to have been viewed as a mathematical question. It was only after the Council of Trent that the unbiblical nature of heliocentrism started to bother the religious authorities. The church's index of forbidden books was not authorized until 1562, long after Copernicus's death, and its first edition did not appear until 1564. Copernicus's work was duly placed on it, but he would not have suffered from having published it during his lifetime. Not suffered from the church, that is: some of his fellow scholars might very well have tried to take him apart, and he may have feared that. Academic fangs were as sharp then as they are now, if not sharper.
Rheticus's life after the publication of De revolutionibus was essentially anticlimax. He was lured away from Wittenberg by an offer from the University of Leipzig with a considerably larger salary. As at Wittenberg, he had spent as much time as he could on leave, for example visiting Cardano in 1545. In 1551 he was accused of homosexual activity with a student. He left town quickly and after a trial in absentia was banished from Leipzig for 101 years, after which time, presumably, he could return. It is likely that he then studied medicine in Prague and from 1554 on he made his living as a doctor in Krakow.
He had not forgotten mathematics, and during his time in
The book's author, Dennis Danielson, is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Thus the book contains no equations at all and mathematical details are not mentioned. I would have liked to know why Rheticus calculated his sines to fifteen decimal places and what method he used, but such things are incidental, as incidental as what medicines he prescribed during his twenty years of doctoring in Poland.
The book is scholarly, with sources and notes, but it is neither dry nor dull. It is well written and the narrative moves along as a good story should. The author only sparingly gives way to the temptation to include novelistic flourishes ("he gazed for the first time at the Frauenburg cathedral backlit by the slowly westering sun"). He is so skillful that he gives the reader the impression of knowing what it was like to be alive in central
Woody Dudley attained age 70 without being aware of Rheticus. You're never too old to learn.


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The newest development in the corruption scandal enveloping House Democrats, including Rep. Jim Moran and Rep. Jack Murtha, was the sending of subpoenas to Murtha's ally, Rep. Pete Visclosky of Indiana. The core of the story is simple: PMA, a now disbanded lobbying outfit, used "straw" donors to steer hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to Murtha and his congressional allies. In turn, they rewarded PMA's clients with millions in earmarks. Kuchera Defense, one of Murtha's favorite earmark-recipients, has been disbarred as a contractor for alleged fraud.
So what is Nancy Pelosi, who promised the most ethical congress ever and vowed to drain the swamp of corruption, doing? Hanging tough, according to Politico:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a close Murtha friend and political ally, has remained tightlipped about him as well. One Democrat says Pelosi "won't even discuss" Murtha and "won't even consider" any move to replace him as the head of the Defense Subcommittee.
Meanwhile, Murtha glad-handed with the recipients of his largess at a local trade show for defense contractors — which, lo and behold, takes place in his hometown. This report is eye-opening:
Mr. Murtha is treated like a god throughout the two-day event, with contractors literally bending down almost on their knees to talk to him. He is forced often to sit, due to recent knee surgery. That ended at a brief news conference Friday morning.
His office had just announced $110 million in federal contract awards to local firms, but a reporter wanted to get his reaction to the federal investigation of Kuchera Defense Systems, which is among the congressman's biggest campaign contributors. The imposing, white-maned 76-year-old flashed some righteous anger.
"So what's that got to do with me?" the 6-foot-6-inch former Marine replied. "What do you think, I oversee these companies? That's the Defense Department's job. That's not my job. You guys write these stories [but] you don't have a clue what this is all about."
"Jesus Christ," he exclaimed, then left out a back door.
This is the face of the "most ethical Congress" ever — and what Pelosi is doggedly defending? If it seems all eerily reminiscent of past partisan scandals — with a recalcitrant Speaker defending her troops and seemingly oblivious to the impact on the party's fortunes — it is. How different from Jack Abramoff is it, really? Pelosi and her troops have, like the Bourbons of old, remembered everything and learned nothing. In 2010 we will see if there is a price to be paid for ethical obtuseness.


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Adding Leopard Server Share as PC Network place
This maybe a simple question but I've been trying to add a share point from a Leopard server onto a PC and am getting nowhere!
If the server address is \\10.130.57.250\
the share is within \Macintosh HD\T & O Share\ what should I be putting in to the add network place wizard? I've tried everything but to no avail.
Any help would be grand!
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Well Mac usually uses afp protocol by default for sharing over the network.
So you probably need to enable sharing on Samba (smb-in short)...
Then you shoould be able to connect your pc to your leopard share..
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And in PC make sure that it is part of "WORKGROUP"
If not restart your pc once you have it configured for the workgroup..
Then you can either go through add network place wizard & simply put the IP address in the PC or you can simply view the workgroup computers & browse to your Leopard SHare server point withing windows explorer..
Hope that helps..
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Moto Guzzi Cocktail
High-proof bourbon meets its match with bitter Punt e Mes. More
High-proof bourbon meets its match with bitter Punt e Mes. More
The combination is simple: Cynar and Punt e Mes, a little lemon juice and orange bitters, finished with salt on top of the ice. The mixture is rich, at times sweet and others tart and sometimes tongue-curlingly bitter. More
If you like bitter liqueurs at all, this combination of Cynar, Punt e Mes, lemon, and salt is a drink you must try. More
Simmering Mexican Coca Cola, brandy, and red wine down into a syrup provides body to this spin on a Manhattan from La Condesa in Austin, Texas. Rye and Punt e Mes coax out the syrup's complexity. More
A smoky drink with notes of lime from Rickhouse in San Francisco. More
Aldea's Brian Block makes this delectable variation on the classic Negroni, using Punt e Mes Italian vermouth, Aperol, and cocoa-nib infused gin. More
This recipe is from William Nazar of Blue Hill Stone Barns. More
Similar in approach to the Red Hook, another Brooklyn-themed Manhattan variation, the Slope--named for the borough's Park Slope neighborhood--utilizes an extra-bitter style of vermouth called Punt e Mes, then tempers the bitterness with the stone-fruit sweetness of apricot liqueur. The result is potent, balanced and memorable; an excellent cocktail for a mid-autumn evening. More
Here's a relative of the Manhattan that dates to within the past five years, a drink created by New York bartender Enzo Errico that utilizes its ancestor's rye whiskey base, matches it with the bitter Italian vermouth Punt e Mes, and fills in the flavor with a hearty dose of funky maraschino liqueur. Named for a once rough-and-tumble Brooklyn neighborhood that's since changed with the times, the Red Hook is one of the more memorable variations of the Manhattan. More