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Who Do the Youngs Think They Are?
The ejections of Cindy Sheehan and Mrs. C.W. Bill Young (that's Beverly to Rep. Young) from the House chamber during the State of the Union Address has provoked a great deal of self-righteous chest-thumping, on the front page of the Post no less.
Such infantile behavior is expected from Mother Sheehan, as RET writes in his column today. But I expect more class from Republicans. Not the Congressman Young or his wife. She's still calling Terrance W. Gainer, Capitol Chief of Police, an "idiot." The Post reports that she had "saltier" words for him Tuesday night. Young is so kind as not to call for Gainer's head, but he wouldn't rule out legal action. What a gentleman.
House Leadership
As of 10 this morning, it remains unclear who is standing where in the race for House Majority Leader. The team of Rep. Roy Blunt insists they have at least 100 backers locked in, but no one is certain of a number that still remains in flux.
In order to get 100, Blunt last night identified Rep. Wayne Gilchrist as a supporter. But Gilchrist has been a Rep. John Boehner backer up until now.
The smart money, according to GOP caucus members, remains on a second ballot that has Boehner emerging as the leader. That said, Blunt's performance yesterday, handing the conservative Republican Study Group a legislative win in the spending wars, may have helped him more than his poor performance at the caucus retreat earlier this week.
Head wounds
Medical source reports that the wounds to ABC team, specially Woodruff, are most threatening. Suggestion that shrapnel penetrated the skull. Woodruff transferred to the best of the best for head wounds. U.S. medicals have a deal of experience now because of the IEDs. My experience is that prayer works well, too.
Cartoon Kerfuffle Continues
According to this BBC report, the editor of the France Soir newspaper was fired for reprinting the editorial cartoon depictions of Mohammed that have Muslims in an uproar. Several European papers, like France Soir, republished the cartoons originally published by the Norwegian paper, Jyllands Posten, setrting off protests and a trade embargo against Norwegian products in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. (Michelle Malkin has posted the offending cartoons here.)
I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help
President Bush might want to go review old Reagan speeches and pick up some general distrust of government as the solution. The verdict is in on his State of the Union: Bush thinks the federal government is the primary agent of change. See more from David Hogberg today, then check out George Will and Bob Novak echoing his thoughts.
Decent Budget News
The House voted (again -- it's a redo from last year because the Senate slightly changed the bill) to cut slightly the growth of entitlement spending yesterday. It's a solid first step. But the way Roy Blunt's gloating a conservative might suppose the battle is won. Makes you wonder what Blunt would/will do once he's majority leader.
Kathmandu and PACOM
Kathmandu source reports that a general officer from PACOM flew in yesterday, February 1, on the critical day of a national protest by a coalition of the disenfrachised against the peculiar one-man state of King Gyanendra. The general, visiting the Amerian embassy, told the international media present that the United States was concerned at the deterioration of the state. Why does the US get involved in the roof of the world? Because Nepal is an agreed-upon battlefield between the two superstates of the 21st century, India (the team we support) and China (the team we are correct to fear), and also because the Maoist guerillas who control the high ground in the countryside are a sincere terror-for-hire gang and King Gyanendra is now taking arms and momney from Bejing as well as the jihadist crowd in Islamabad. Also, Gyanendra is a rascal and bully, and the people of Nepal deserve better than to be abandoned to beggary and injustice by a so-called international community.
Blunt Closer and Closer
Late word from House gallery source that not only did Roy Blunt deliver squeakily the vote, 216-214, to complete Mike Pence's September initiative for Operation Offset -- cutting money from the budget to match the money spent on Katrina relief -- but also that Blunt is within celebrating distance of the 117 votes he needs for GOP leadership. Importantly, source does not say that 117 is a done deal. Blunt remains heavy establishment favorite, however this is a secret, secret, secret ballot and there is no motive for anyone ever to reveal his or her vote.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Specialty drug company Endo International (ENDP - Get Report) has grossly underperformed its peers. With shares down 5.5% on the year to date, trailing the health care sector's 11% gain, according to Morningstar, Endo's management is under significant shareholder pressure. Shares trade close to $64. By contrast the S&P 500 is up 6% so far in 2014.
Investors are debating whether to sell out and movie on. Don't be in such a rush just yet.
Despite the stock underperformance, the Endo of 2014 is not the same company once known for chronically shooting itself in the foot. I believe in the next 12 to 18 months, patient investors will be rewarded with a stock that is 20% higher.
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Despite the weak top-line growth (1% year-over year), the company's management, led by new CEO Rajiv De Silva, has adopted an aggressive growth strategy. This transformation has produced several accretive deals aimed at diversifying the business. All told, Endo is now well-positioned to seize significant market share in the next couple of years. What's more, based on 2015 earnings estimates of $4.34, according to Yahoo! Finance, these shares are cheap trading at a multiple of 14. This is eight points lower than the industry average price-to-earnings ratio of 22. This puts Endo, which competes with Forest Labs (FRX) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA) , one of the few bargains left in this sector. The company's recent $575 million deal for DAVA Pharmaceuticals is one recent example of how committed Endo has become to generating growth. Nevertheless, what I think is more important to consider is the extent to which Endo's generics business will be boosted by the 13 products DAVA already has on the market. With more than five additional generic products set to hit the market in 2015, Endo, whose generics pipeline suddenly looks stronger, saw a deal it couldn't pass up. This means 2015 looks even more promising than current estimates suggest. For a business that is already growing at close to 20% year over year, the deal for DAVA, which should close later this year, is just what the doctor ordered. Read More: Sunesis Takes a Run Through the Feuerstein-Ratain Rule In terms of the deal itself, at $575 upfront cash Endo is paying just six times trailing earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortizatoin. These deals usually command an Ebitda multiple of eight times. So Endo is buying not only a highly profitable business but one that holds 30% market share in a drug called Methotrexate, which treats various forms of cancer. With this deal, Endo immediately surpasses both Teva Pharmaceuticals and Mylan (MYL) , which command market share of 12% and 17%, respectively.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Just a little reading material to keep you all occupied before the game today. It's off of MLB.com, and covers how players deal with trades. More specifically it spotlights Michael Barrett and Robert Bowen.
Players reactions to Trades
Been blogging on VFTB since 2006. It's been a long silly run thus far. I still play baseball in the Chicago North Men's Senior Baseball League.
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...will be to give every user their own personal cloud housed in a box under their desk. At which point the cycle will begin again.
That sounds like a great idea! We can call it a Personal Cloud, or PC for short.
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nonsense, human population growth will peak in 60 years
There's no way of knowing that for sure, but let's assume it's true for the sake of argument. You're presupposing that a decline in population growth will naturally result in a decrease in demand for natural resources, but that is not necessarily the case. As developing nations continue to develop, there will be an increased demand for natural resources even if the population of those nations remains stable.
you must think pregnant women will be one mile in diameter after two years
straw man
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It's extremely small minded/short sighted of the worlds most famous physicist, to assume the current system will keep chugging along, with business as usual, for a THOUSAND more years. He should do a little historical research...
You're right. Given the historical precedent, I'd say mankind will probably find faster, more efficient ways to deplete the planet of its resources in well under a thousand years.
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Wasn't the record the Elite:Dangerous kickstarter? It raised £1.5m, which is about $2.2m. Planescape should breeze past this easily as their first day raised nearly $1m, which is kind-of unbelievable.
Off the top of my head, the developers of Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 would tend to disagree.
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Scratch that. Even though attempting to verify the account gave an error saying that my password was incorrect, apparently it worked but took overnight to finish. I was unable to log in last night (could not find account), but this morning it works normally. This is stupid, but at least it works, I guess.
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tried +firstname.lastname@example.com?
I had the same issue as OP and tried this. The site did not accept it as a valid e-mail address.
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I haven't yet found a program which stopped working with newer java.
Up until last month, we still had to install Java 1.5 on some users' computers because their jobs required them to use a web application that would not work on Java 1.6 or newer. We neither develop nor host the application, so all we could do was keep installing the horribly outdated version of Java and wait for the application to be upgraded to work with Java 1.6.


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Genre/Form: | Suspense films Feature films Video recordings for the hearing impaired Drama Teatro |
Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
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Bill Bennett; Jennifer Cluff; David Kronemyer; Larry Katz; Burt Reynolds; Saffron Burrows; Peter Facinelli; Mike Starr; George DiCenzo; Eric Mabius; Tony Clark; Henry Dangar; David Bridie; Edie Kurzer; Monroe Kelly; Gold Circle Films.; TF1 International (Firm); BIJ Films (Firm); HBO Video (Firm) |
OCLC Number: | 51726591 |
Language Note: | English or Spanish dialogue; closed captioned. |
Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Special features: features cast and director bios. |
Credits: | Director of photography, Tony Clark ; editor, Henry Dangar ; music composer, David Bridie ; costume designer, Edie Kurzer ; production designer, Monroe Kelly. |
Cast: | Burt Reynolds, Saffron Burrows, Peter Facinelli, Mike Starr, George Dicenzo, Eric Mabius. |
Awards: | Australian Cinematographers Society, 2002, Golden Tripod -Feature Productions Cinema (Tony Clark). |
Target Audience: | MPAA rating: R; for strong sexuality, language and violence. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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To test the faithfulness of his wife, a wealthy New Orleans businessman offers to pay a young law student/construction worker to try and seduce her. The trouble is, when you start messing with another man's wife, the price you pay may be greater than any of the pleasure from its rewards.
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Trees in the Reiser4 Filesystem, Part I
We start our search at the root, because from the root we can reach every other node. But, how do we choose which subtree of the root to go to from the root? The root contains pointers to its subtrees. For each pointer to a subtree there is a corresponding left delimiting key. Pointers to subtrees, and the subtrees themselves, are ordered by their left delimiting key. A subtree pointer's left delimiting key is equal to the least key of the things in the subtree. Its right delimiting key is larger than the largest key in the subtree, and it is the left delimiting key of the next subtree of this node.
Each subtree contains only things whose keys are at least equal to the left delimiting key of its pointer and are not more than its right delimiting key. If there are no duplicate keys in the tree, then each subtree contains only things whose keys are less than its right delimiting key. If there are no duplicate keys, then by looking within a node at its pointers to subtrees and their delimiting keys, we know which subtree of that node contains the thing we want.
Duplicate keys are a topic for another time. For now I will only hint that when searching through objects with duplicate keys we find the first of them in the tree. Then we search through all the duplicates, one by one, until we find what we are looking for. Allowing duplicate keys can allow for smaller keys, so there is sometimes a trade-off between key size and the average frequency of such inefficient linear searches.
The contents of each node in the tree are sorted within the node. Therefore, the entire tree is sorted by key, and for a given key we know exactly where to go to find at least one thing with that key.
We choose to make the nodes equal in size, so it is easier to allocate the unused space between nodes, because it will be of a size equal to some multiple of the size of a node. This way, there aren't any problems of space being free but not large enough to store a node. Also, disk drives have an interface that assumes equal size blocks, which they find convenient for their error-correction algorithms.
If having the nodes be equal in size is not very important, perhaps because the tree fits into RAM, then using a class of algorithms called skip lists is worth considering.
Reiser4 nodes are usually equal to the size of a page, which if you use Linux on an Intel CPU is 4,096 (4k) bytes. There is no measured empirical reason to think this size is better than others; it is simply the one that Linux makes easiest and cleanest to program. Quite honestly, we have been too busy to experiment with other sizes.
If nodes are of equal size, how do we store large objects? We chop them into pieces, and we call these pieces items. An item is sized to fit within a single node.
Conventional filesystems store files in whole blocks. Roughly speaking, this means that, on average, half a block of space is wasted per file because not all of the last block of the file is used. If a file is much smaller than a block, the space wasted is a large percentage of the total file size. It is not effective to store such typical database objects as addresses and phone numbers in separately named files in a conventional filesystem because more than 90% of the space in the storage blocks is wasted. By putting multiple items within a single node in Reiser4, we are able to pack multiple small pieces of files into one block. Our space efficiency is roughly 94% for small files. This does not count per-item-formatting overhead, whose percentage of total space consumed depends on average item size and, for that reason, is hard to quantify.
Aligning files to 4k boundaries does have advantages for large files though. When a program wants to operate directly on file data without going through system calls to do it, it can use mmap() to make the file data part of the process' directly accessible address space. Due to some implementation details, mmap() needs file data to be 4k-aligned. If the data is already 4k-aligned, it makes mmap() much more efficient. In Reiser4 the current default is that files larger than 16k are 4k-aligned. We don't yet have enough empirical data and experience to know whether 16k is the optimal default value for this cutoff point.
Continuing with our tree metaphor, leaves are nodes that have no children. Internal nodes are nodes that have children.
A search starts with the root node, traverses two more internal nodes and ends with a leaf node, which is a node that holds the data and has no children.
An item is a data container that is contained entirely within a single node. A node that contains items is called a formatted node. When we store objects in the tree, we put their various parts into items and unformatted leaves. Unformatted leaves (unfleaves) are leaves that contain only data and do not contain any formatting information. Only leaves can contain unformatted data. Pointers are stored in items, and so all internal nodes are necessarily formatted nodes.
Pointers to unfleaves are different in their structure from pointers to formatted nodes. To clarify, extent pointers point to unfleaves. An extent is a sequence of contiguous, in block number order, unfleaves that belong to the same object. An extent pointer contains the starting block number of the extent and a length. Because the extent belongs to only one object, we can store only one key for the extent, and we can calculate the key of any byte within that extent. If the extent is at least two blocks long, extent pointers are more compact than regular node pointers.
Node pointers are pointers to formatted nodes. We do not yet have a compressed version of node pointers, but they should be available soon. Notice that with extent pointers we don't have to store the delimiting key of each node pointed to, while we need to do this when using node pointers. We will probably introduce key compression at the same time we add compressed node pointers. One would expect keys to compress well because they are sorted into ascending order. We expect our node and item plugin infrastructure will make such features easy to add at a later date.
Twigs are parents of leaves, and extent pointers exist only in twigs. (This is a very controversial design decision I will discuss in Part II of this article.) Branches are internal nodes that are not twigs.
You might think we would number the root level 1, but since the tree grows at the top, it turns out to be more useful for number 1 to be the level with the leaves where object data is stored. The height of the tree depends upon how many objects we have to store and what the fanout rate (average number of children) of the internal and twig nodes will be.
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Additional Physical Format: | (OCoLC)20888663 |
Named Person: | Henry Sacheverell; John Churchill Marlborough, Duke of; John Churchill Marlborough, Duke of; Henry Sacheverell |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
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OCLC Number: | 65326084 |
Notes: | Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 04644. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |
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Artist: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Album: Miscellaneous
Genre: Rock
It's alright if you love
It's alright if you don't
I'm not afraid of you running away
Honey, I get the feeling you won't
There is no sense in pretending
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you is feeling like I do
We've said all there is to say
Baby breakdown, go ahead, give it to me
Breakdown, honey take me through the night
Breakdown, now I'm standing here, can't you see?
Breakdown, it's all right
It's all right, it's all right
Breakdown, go ahead, give it to me
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US 4933779 A Abstract Image scanner apparatus includes a drum having an aperture rotatable about an axis. A mechanism clamps a border of an exposed photographic film to the drum, with the film image aligned with the aperture substantially in a surface of revolution of the drum. A source of diffuse light, disposed between the rotational axis of the drum and its surface of revolution, projects a line of diffuse illumination through the aperture directly onto the film image. Lens apparatus, interposed between the surface of revolution of the drum and a linear image sensor, focuses a line of diffuse light, modulated in accordance with the film image, onto the sensor.
Claims(1) 1. Image scanning apparatus for converting an image recorded on a photographic film to an electrical signal modulated in accordance with such image, said apparatus comprising:
(a) a drum rotatable about an axis and having an aperture arranged for movement along a surface of revolution of said drum; (b) a mechanism adapted to clamp an image-bearing film to said drum with the film image aligned with the aperture for rotation therewith substantially in a surface of revolution of said drum; (c) a source of diffuse light disposed between the axis of rotation of said drum and its surface of revolution, said diffuse light source defining an elongate light-emitting slot of width, w, located a distance, d, from the surface of revolution of said drum for forming a relatively narrow line of diffuse illumination extending from one side to the opposing side of the aperture orthogonal to the direction of rotation of said drum, to project the narrow line of diffuse illumination directly onto the image-bearing film orthogonal to the direction at which the film is movably carried on the surface of revolution of said drum, the distance d being approximately one-half the width w so that light emitted through the slot impinges on the film plane over a wide range of incident angles to reduce the influence of scratches and dust on the film image; (d) a stepper motor for rotating said drum in a stepwise manner about its axis of rotation, to move the image-bearing portion of the film orthogonally through the line of diffuse illumination in a series of discrete steps each of which corresponds substantially to the width of the relatively narrow line diffuse illumination at the surface of revolution of said drum; (e) a linear array of a given number of light-responsive elements disposed external to the surface of revolution of said drum; and (f) focusable lens apparatus, interposed between the surface of revolution of said drum and said linear array, selectively positionable as a function of the size of the film image, to focus the portion of the line of diffuse light that is modulated in accordance with the film image illuminated onto said given number of light responsive elements of said linear array, thereby providing variable magnification of said image sensor to adjust the resolution of the film image scanned in a direction corresponding to the orientation of the line of diffuse illumination.540 Description 1. Field Of The Invention The present invention relates to image scanning apparatus. 2. Description Of The Prior Art Image scanning is a process of converting an image recorded on a photosensitive sheet, such as photographic film, to an electronic image. Scanning, as such, is commonly employed as a first step in the transmission of an image from one storage medium to another, or in the enhancement or the analysis of the image prior to its transmission. With a photographic film held in a given plane, an image scanner measures the optical density of the film by illuminating it with light of known intensity and measuring the amount of light transmitted through, or reflected from, the film. In doing so, the scanner effectively divides the image recorded on the film into discrete picture elements, or pixels, and assigns to each a number or value representing an average density for each pixel. Commonly, the pixels are arranged in rows and columns to form a two-dimensional grid with the density of each pixel corresponding to a relatively small portion of the overall image. There are various image scanning systems known in the art. Such systems are of two basic types, i.e. so-called flat-bed scanning and so-called cylindrical or drum scanning. With film of a large format, e.g. greater than 35 mm, flat-bed scanner apparatus requires a support to maintain the film precisely in a predetermined flat plane. To that end, film is commonly sandwiched tightly between an opposing pair of glass plates. With drum scanner apparatus, a clamping mechanism serves to maintain the film in a curved plane tightly against the surface of the drum. These arrangements, however, suffer from a disadvantage in that the support for the film--glass plates with flat-bed apparatus and the drum with cylindrical apparatus--can create optical interference patterns, known as Newton rings, in the illumination applied to the film. There are procedures used in the art, with a moderate degree of success, in the eliminating of Newton rings. For example, etched glass, known as anti-Newton glass, can be employed. Such glass, however, is expensive due to its added cost of manufacture. Two other procedures include applying oil to each film sheet, and the use of the so-called "cornstarch method". The former requires that the film support be wiped completely clean of oil each time a different film is to be scanned. Cornstarch works in a hit or miss manner to eliminate Newton rings; thus, that method can be time-consuming in order to obtain fully satisfactory results. In addition to problems associated with Newton rings, an illumination system of an image scanner should be efficient. It is important, for example from the standpoint of scanning speed, that light not be wasted. That is, light should be directed, to the extent possible, onto only the pixel (or pixels) whose optical density is being measured at that particular time. The spatial resolution of film determines scene detail--the amount of information--recorded. For example, Ektachrome 64 film, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company, exposed with an excellent lens can record information to 100 cycles per millimeter (mm). In this case, film pixel pitch should be five microns (μ) to extract all information. However, information of such minute detail --a few wavelengths of light--imposes stringent requirements on an illumination system. It can be appreciated by those skilled in the image scanner art that it may not be possible, particularly with a high-definition film, to concentrate light solely on pixels of interest, to the total exclusion of other pixels. Nevertheless, light should be directed, to the fullest extent possible, onto only the pixel or pixels whose density is being measured. To some extent, the aforementioned glass plates of flat-bed apparatus and the drum of cylindrical apparatus disperse incident light, thereby contributing to inefficiency. Although unwanted dispersion can be wasteful, specular illumination, i.e. light concentrated in a small solid angle, highlights particles and scratches on the film surface. Diffuse illumination, on the other hand, so long as it is not wasted, is highly preferred since it, contrary to specular light, reduces granularity due to particles on the film surface and hides film scratches. The latter feature is particularly important when the cosmetic quality of the image is critical. Further desirable characteristics of an image scanner are the absence of electronic flare and the suppression of cross talk. The former arises when light is projected onto pixels distant from the one(s) whose density is being measured; cross talk results from light on a neighboring pixel. Thus, the illumination system of an image scanner is subject to the somewhat conflicting requirements of the need for diffuse illumination while using light in an efficient manner to enhance scanner speed and to reduce flare and cross talk. In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the present invention to provide image scanner apparatus that is free of Newton rings and that is of relatively high speed while utilizing diffuse illumination in an efficient a manner as possible to limit cross talk and flare. Underlying the concept of the present invention is the recognition that bending a sheet of photographic film makes the film more rigid. Film of a size that would normally require support to maintain it in flat plane, e.g. film of a format greater than 35 mm, need not be supported, when bent, to maintain it in a curved circular plane. With this recognition in mind, the object of the invention, insofar as it relates to the eliminating of Newton rings, is achieved with image scanner apparatus of the cylindrical or drum type in which a rotatable drum (or cylinder) has an aperture on its curved surface corresponding to the size of an image to be scanned. A clamping mechanism secures a border of the film (non-image-bearing portion) to the curved surface of the drum, with the image-carrying portion of the film being in registration with the aperture of the drum. Further toward achieving the object of the invention, insofar as it relates to using diffuse illumination in an efficient manner, an optical converter, located between the rotational axis of the drum and its surface of revolution, projects a line of diffuse illumination through the aperture on the drum directly onto the film image plane, to illuminate an entire row of film pixels at a time. A lens, interposed between the surface of revolution of the drum and a linear array of light-responsive elements, focuses light, modulated in accordance with the row of pixels illuminated, onto the light-sensitive elements. Thus, image scanner apparatus of the drum type both illuminates and detects an entire row of film pixels at a time. The optical converter is arranged relative to the film image plane so that the light line projected is relatively concentrated, without sacrificing its diffusive characteristic. Accordingly, cross talk and flare are limited. Not only are multiple pixels illuminated and detected simultaneously, the diffuse light reduces film granularity and obfuscates film scratches. With the film bent in accordance with the curvature of the drum, its image-carrying portion, although not directly supported, is maintained precisely in a predetermined curved plane defined by the surface of revolution of the drum. Accordingly, diffuse light impinges directly onto the film image, without first having to be transmitted through a film support member. This provides an improved arrangement for the eliminating of undesired Newton rings. Furthermore, because the film image is unsupported, scanner illumination is not unduly dispersed and, accordingly, is used more efficiently since it is more readily concentrated onto the pixels whose densities are being measured. These advantages, as well as other advantages of the invention, will become more apparent in the detailed description of a preferred embodiment presented below. The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein: FIG. 1 is a perspective view of image scanner apparatus of the drum type in accordance with the present invention; FIG. 2 is a side view of the image scanner apparatus of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a perspective partially exploded view of optical converter apparatus for forming a line of diffuse illumination; FIGS. 4a and 4b are partial side elevation views illustrating the arrangement between the output of the converter apparatus and the film image plane. FIG. 5 is a planar view, along the line 5--5 of FIG. 3, of converter apparatus for conditioning the intensity of the line of diffuse illumination; FIG. 6 is a perspective view useful in illustrating the operation of the converter apparatus; and FIG. 7 is a holder for mounting film on the drum. An object of the invention is to provide image scanner apparatus that is free of Newton rings and that is of relatively high scanning speed while employing diffuse illumination in an efficient manner to limit cross talk and flare. Insofar as the eliminating of Newton rings is concerned, my inventive contribution takes advantage of the fact that photographic film is more rigid when bent. To that end, FIG. 1 shows image scanner apparatus 10 of the drum type, in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention. Film 11 to be scanned is bent to the curvature of a film-receiving surface 12 of a hollow drum 13. I take advantage of the rigidity of bent film by mounting it so that the film image is free of drum support. More specifically, the drum 13 has an aperture 14 on its curved surface 12 that is larger than the area of the film image. Film-holder means, described in detail hereinafter, serves to mount film 11 in alignment with the aperture 14. By means made apparent hereinbelow, illumination for scanning the film image is projected through aperture 14--via free space--directly onto the film image. Thus, illumination impinging on film 11 is free of Newton rings; furthermore, since the film image is aligned with aperture 14, impinging illumination is not dispersed unnecessarily. The object of the invention also requires image scanner apparatus of relatively high speed. To that end, light for scanning the film image is provided in the form of a line of diffuse illumination, denoted 15. All pixels in a given row of the film image are illuminated and detected simultaneously to enhance the speed at which an image is scanned. To that end, a lamp 16, preferably of the halogen-tungsten type, provides light used for illuminating film 11. An optical converter 17, described in detail hereinbelow with reference to FIGS. 2 through 6, serves to form the line of diffuse light. The entire film image is scanned by moving film 11 one row of pixels at a time through the light line 15. To that end, a stepper motor 22 serves to rotate the drum 13 in small increments about a central axis 24. For that purpose, the motor 22 rotates the drum 13 in a line-scan direction--from the top of a film image to the bottom--via a driven pulley 25 and an endless belt 26 wrapped around the drum in an Ω configuration. A pair of idlers 28 functions to control belt tension. Rotatable cam followers 29 serve to locate the drum 13. Lens apparatus 30 functions to focus an image of one row of film pixels at a time onto a charge coupled device (CCD) linear image sensor 32. An operator sets lens apparatus 30 for a variety of magnifications to control the width of the film image scanned. In a preferred embodiment, the image sensor 32 includes an overlay comprising three parallel arrays of color filters--red (R), green (G) and blue (B). This "tri-linear" image sensor 32 further includes three corresponding parallel output registers which are coupled respectively to an output of one of the color filter arrays. Thus, the output of one of the registers corresponds to an R video signal, a second register to a G video signal, and the third register to a B video signal. Clock generating electronics 34 function to control the CCD sensor 32 and to process its output signals to produce in a known manner a high-resolution video signal corresponding to the film image. The clock generating electronics 34 applies the R, G and B video signals to circuitry (not shown) for subsequent operations, such as to produce positive R, G and B color signals to provide a composite video signal for display on a video monitor (also not shown). A tri-linear image sensor array and corresponding clock generating electronics 34 of the type disclosed herein are the subject of U.S. Pat. No. 4,278,995 entitled COLOR LINE SENSOR FOR USE IN FILM SCANNING APPARATUS, assigned to the assignee of this invention and the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. FIGS. 2, 3, 4a, 4b, 5 and 6 illustrate the aforementioned converter 17 for illuminating film 11 with a line of diffuse light projected through the aperture 14. To that end, the converter 17 is located inside the drum 13 between its axis of rotation 24 and its surface of revolution. For the purpose of forming a line of light, a fiber optic bundle 40, also shown in FIG. 1, serves to transform a pencil-shape beam of specular light, provided by the lamp 16, into a flat relatively wide beam, i.e., a beam of generally line-like shape. To that end, the input end of the bundle 40 is aligned with the lamp 16, the diameter of the bundle being substantially equal to the diameter of the specular light beam. The optic fibers, denoted 42, are unbundled inside a housing 44 and arranged with their respective output ends distributed along nose 46 which faces downwardly within an elongate rectangular entrance slot 48 of a cylindrical diffusing tube 50. Thus, light from the lamp 16 is spread out and thereby enters the diffusing tube 50 through the slot 48 which extends longitudinally from one end of the tube to the next. The tube 50 serves a dual function of diffusing light received and projecting a relatively thin line of such diffuse illumination onto the film image plane of the scanner apparatus 10. To diffuse the light received, the inside curved wall 52 of the tube 50 is preferably painted with a diffuse, highly reflective paint. Alternatively, a thin layer of white polyester film, manufactured by ICI Americas, Inc. of New Castle, Del., may cover the wall 52 for diffusing light. An elongate rectangular exit slot 54, approximately ninety degrees (90�) from the entrance slot 48 and generally parallel with the axis 24 of the drum 13, serves for directing a line of diffuse illumination toward the film image plane. Light entering through the slot 48 is diffused by reflection of the inside wall 52 and exits through the slot 54. FIG. 4 illustrates two effects associated with the position of the diffusing tube 50 relative to the film image plane. First, the larger the distance that the slot 54 is from the film image plane, the distance denoted d, the greater is the height of the film area over which the light line 15 is distributed. If the height of this film area is too large, light is wasted. Second, the angular spread of light, seen by a point on the film, decreases with distance d. If this angular spread is too small, light impinging on the film is no longer diffuse. So that light projected onto the film is diffuse, without being unduly wasted, the exit slot 54 is positioned from the film plane a distance d which is approximately one-half the width, w, of the slot. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the slot 54 is located approximately 1/20 of a centimeter from the film plane; thus, the width w of the slot 54 is approximately 1/10 of a centimeter. As disclosed previously herein, Kodak Ektachrome 64 film exposed with an excellent lens can record information to 100 cycles per millimeter (mm). In this case, film pixel pitch should be 5 microns (μ) to extract all information. With such a high-definition film, it is not possible to control the width w of the slot 54 and the distance d to such minute dimensions to illuminate only one row of film pixels at a time. Nevertheless, by controlling the size of the slot 54 and its location relative to the film plane, and by mounting the film so that illumination can be projected through free space directly onto the film image, diffuse illumination is employed efficiently to limit cross talk and flare, while being free of Newton rings. Referring briefly back to FIG. 1, it is shown generally therein that light from one end of the light line 15, for example the right-hand side, impinges on the opposite end, the left-hand side, of the tri-linear image array 32. It is known in the optics art that irradiance in an image plane decreases as the field angle of the image increases. In particular, irradiance falls off, in proportion to the fourth power of the cosine of the field angle--the angle defined by a line connecting the centers of an object and its image, and the optical axis of a lens. Other factors such as lens vignetting are also known to contribute to irradiance falloff. The converter 17, in addition to forming a relatively narrow line of diffuse illumination at the film plane, further serves to condition the irradiance of the light line 15, in the film plane, so that irradiance along the linear image sensor 32 is uniform. In other words, the converter 17, insofar as falloff due to field angle is concerned, functions to adjust the amount of power radiated along the slot 54 so that the irradiance (power per unit area) at the object plane (the film image plane) varies approximately as the inverse of the fourth power of the cosine of the field angle. To that end, FIG. 5 shows that the nose 46 of housing 44 has an elongate symmetrically shaped slot 60 that widens progressively toward each end from its middle. In particular, an arcuate inside surface 64 of the nose 46 is shaped to progressively widen the slot 60 approximately with the reciprocal of the fourth power of the cosine of the field angle. In a preferred embodiment of the image scanner apparatus 10, the field angle of lens 30 is approximately �12�. Accordingly, the width of the slot 60 at centerline 65, corresponding to a field angle of 0�, is approximately ninety percent (90%) of its width at both ends, which correspond, respectively, to field angles of plus and minus 12�. FIG. 5 also shows that the fiber optics 42 are distributed throughout the slot 60. In particular, the respective outputs of the fiber optics 42 are arranged side by side generally in a common plane, to substantially fill the slot 60. In other words, the area of the slot 60 equals the cross-section of the fiber optic bundle 40. Since each fiber is approximately of the same diameter (50μ), the number of fibers in the slot 60, at any given distance on either side of centerline 65, is larger than the number of fibers at the centerline 65 by approximately the reciprocal of the fourth power of the cosine of the field angle corresponding to such given distance. As is shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the nose 46 fits within the entrance slot 48 of the diffusing tube 50. Accordingly, the light power per unit length of the slot 60, and therefore the amount of light entering the diffusing tube 50, varies along the slot 48 in proportion to the reciprocal of the fourth power of the cosine of the field angle. Light, entering the diffusing tube 50 at a given point along the entrance slot 48, exits the diffusing tube 50 concentrated in a corresponding region of the exit slot 54. For example, FIG. 6 shows that light entering the tube 50 at a point A, near the end of the entrance slot 48, is concentrated in a region A at the corresponding end of the exit slot 54; similarly, light entering the tube 50 at a point B near the middle of the entrance slot 48 (in the linewise direction), exits the tube primarily from corresponding region B in the slot 54, with the shape of the distribution somewhat different from that at region A. The shape of the output distribution, i.e. the impulse response, changes slowly as a function of the distance x. This shape can be computed using well-known Monte Carlo techniques, or, more straightforwardly, it can be measured. By sending light into slot 48 at different input points, and measuring the light distribution along slot 54 for each input, a set of impulse functions can be determined. Since the impulse response changes only slowly along the slot, it need be measured at only a course spacing, for example, a spacing equal to the radius of the tube 50. Once each of the impulse responses is known, the output of slot 54 for any input distribution along the slot 48 can be calculated by the principle of superposition. The most straightforward method of doing this is to describe the shape of the output of fiber optics 42 by a function containing a small number of parameters. The shape of the slot 60, as shown in FIG. 5, can be described in this manner. Then, the output distribution can be calculated. If needed, the shape of the slot 60 is then varied to obtain an output distribution that provides uniform irradiance along the image sensor 32. FIG. 7 shows apparatus 68 for loading film to be scanned onto the drum 13. To that end, film is sandwiched between a pair of flexible rectangular sheets 70, 71. Each sheet has a centrally aligned aperture 72 the dimensions of which correspond to the film image to be scanned. The film itself is somewhat larger than each aperture 72 so that only the border of the film--the non-image-bearing area --is actually sandwiched between the flexible sheets. A molded panel 74 holds the sheets 70, 71 together along corresponding outer edges to provide a clam-shell effect for placing the film between the sheets. A pair of studs 76, attached to the drum 13, serves to clamp the panel 72 to the drum. To that end, each stud 76 is shaped to be received by a correspondingly shaped locating hole 79 in the panel 72. A spring-loaded lever 82 attached to an edge of the top sheet 71, at the end opposite from the panel 72, serves for holding both sheets 70, 71 tightly against the curved surface 12 of the drum 13. To that end, the free end of a strong spring 84 is attached to a projection (not shown) on the drum 13. In doing so, the spring 84 pulls the lever 82, and thereby wraps sheet 71 directly, and sheet 70 under the influence of sheet 71, around the surface of the drum; with this arrangement, film sandwiched therebetween is bent to the curvature of the drum, with each aperture 72 aligned with the film image, which, in turn, is in registration with aperture 14 of the drum 13. FIG. 7 also shows that the top sheet 71 has a pair of spaced upwardly facing flanges 86 immediately adjacent opposed edges of the aperture 72 that are parallel with central axis 24. Each flange 86 serves to make the sheet 71 more rigid along the corresponding edge of the aperture 72, and thereby more accurately holds film in a curved plane corresponding to the surface of revolution of the drum. In operation, apparatus 10 scans continuous tone, color images recorded on reversal or negative films. A variety of film sizes can be handled, including films in a 120 and 135 format and film sheets of a size up to 20 by 25.4 centimeters. For handling the latter film size, the drum 13 has a circumference of approximately 63 centimeters, a longitudinal dimension of approximately 35 centimeters, and an aperture 14 of approximately 23 by 28 centimeters. The size of aperture 72 of sheets 70 and 71 is determined by the film to be scanned. To that end, multiple pairs of sheets 70, 71, each pair having an aperture 72 of appropriate size, are used to mount the variety of films to be scanned. An operator selectively position lens apparatus 30 to control the width of the image scanned. In a preferred embodiment, lens apparatus 30 is selected to provide three different magnifications--a film image of width up to 20 centimeters, a film width to 10 centimeters, and a film image width up to 5.7 centimeters. Preferably, the linear image sensor 32 has 8000 pixels for each of the R, G, and B sensors. Accordingly, lens apparatus 30 provides a scanner resolution of approximately 400 pixels per centimeter for a film image up to 20 centimeters wide, 800 pixels per centimeter for a film image up to 10 centimeters wide, and 1400 pixels per centimeter for an image 5.7 centimeters wide. The invention has been described in detail with reference to the figures; however, it will be appreciated that variations and modifications are possible within the spirit and scope of the invention. Patentable features disclosed but not claimed herein are disclosed and claimed in U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 241,685, entitled LIGHT-CONDITIONING APPARATUS FOR AN IMAGE SCANNER ILLUMINATION SYSTEM, filed Sept. 8, 1988. Patent Citations
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India, as the declared host of the under-17 World Cup football in 2017, savoured the feeling of hosting the symbol of ultimate supremacy in the sport – the FIFA World Cup Trophy – which made a stop here on Sunday as part of its 88-country trip.
The glittering trophy carved out of 4927gm of pure gold was received by Sachin Tendulkar. He used the occasion to engender the dream of playing the 2022 FIFA World Cup for the young Indian footballers even as the cup was borne on to the stage by Carlos Alberto Torres, who captained Brazil to the World Cup triumph in 1970 in Mexico.
"I am here to show my support to the young footballers some of whom I believe will participate in the World Cup in 2022," said Tendulkar.
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