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Nice. Sounds like you have a lot more work to do, tho. :-)

A "High End Drum Scanner" Since folks have been asking about careers and whining about their cheap, crappy broken scanners, I thought I would talk about the Fuji CELSIS 6250 drum scanner. This is a discontinued product that replaced the old Crosfield 646IM. I forget the specs. They are through the roof, and with the easy availability of cheap scanners that are "good enough" and easy to use, this British designed scanner, which is probably the best ever made, is now an obsolete dinosaur. Physically, the scanner kinda works like a lathe. Art is mounted on the drum that spins as an analyse head traverses the length of the drum. The mechanics move slower and faster depending on the resolution required of the scan. It uses 2 different drum sizes - one is smaller for higher res scans. There are some fiber optics to deliver light to the art but the light coming into the scanner travels through lense and a "beam splitter" to deliver the light to the red, green and blue filters. From there the light goes to a PMT, Photo Multilier Tube where it is converted to an electronic signal that can be amplified and subsequently modified. The lamp is a Xenon arc lamp (approx $400) In the old days the scanner was in 2 pieces, basically an analyse unit and an expose unit. The expose unit being a sort of like what was later called an image setter. Litho film was affixed to a large drum that spun as the laser pulsed out halftone dots onto the film. While the analyse side varied in speed ,the expose side operated at a fixed speed. The exposure was handled by an Argon Ion (green) laser that allowed the use of standard (red) safelight film. There wan never an actual complete image file at that point. Later, "High End Unix Workstations" were created that did a fractin of what Photoshop does today on your laptop. The Crosfield solution was called a "Studio" with some number following it. 950 ? It was fitted with accelerated processors and lots of ram. It also employed a method of breaking upa large image file into a grid so the operator could work on portions of the image in something akin to real time. A Studio system and 646 IM scanner and the special room and air conditioning required would set you back almost a million dollars. The scanner had it's own built in "color computer". It could be semi automated using another computer, complete with twin 7" floppy drives. To use the scanner's onboard functionality, everything had to be done through this console As you access the functions in a modern software package on a happy OS with a pretty GUI by selecting from a menu of functions with pop down subfunctions and then drag sliders and enter numbers - this device required you to presss a specific button (the Cal button) and then enter the number of the function you wanted. All the functionality was handled in a couple lines on the little LED. There was no preview of what you were doing to the image - you went by the numbers displayed on the LED. Originally everything was done in CMYK, which is pretty straightforward compared to RGB. Eventually, the power and speed of personal computers got to an acceptable place and Apple, with their Macintosh OS that catered to printers and Adobe, who supported Macintosh enthusiastically and catered to printers and graphic designers as well, made the Apple PC a viable alternative to the cumbersome old workstations. The Apple Quadra 950 powerhouse clocked in at 33mhz with 128mb RAM and a 1gb HD for around $10,000. zoom For a long time most separations still just went straight to film and then off to an eagerly awaiting stripper. The software that resided on the scanner was later ported to the Mac OS and, soon the expose unit and the weird little controller computer of the scanner disappeared and a relatively cheap mac was used to control the scanner and receive the scans directly to the hard drive. Well, actually, the scanner has it's own HD to act as a kind of buffer when the computer can't keep up. This is the guts of the scanner. After a lot of the functionality got moved to the Mac, it only needed about half the boards it had had. For more of the history of this scanner and the company that created it, go to ColorPhil.co.uk http://www.colourphil.co.uk/crosfield_scanner_intro.html Bonus Pic ! The Fuji C-550 Lanovia flatbed with it's 14 x 17" platen. The scanners pictured are at Carey Digital in scenic Over the Rhine in Cincinnati http://www.careydigital.com

^You are kinda nowhere for walking but a short drive south on Highland to Liberty to Vine will getcha downtown or Over the Rhine and a short drive north on Highland to Martin Luther King to Jefferson to Ludlow will get you to Clifton and if you continue on Ludlow you will get to a neighborhood called Northside. If you can't find anything to do in any of these areas, I don't know what to tell you. I like the Vernon Manor.

Might be a good choice. It wouldn't surprise me if the pervs at CCV try to shut it down for being erotic.

? "As an added bonus, if you and the wife are looking for some added adventure, take a walk after dark through Over the Rhine. The locals are very friendly and will be more than happy to show you the sights."

AMEN

I saw the "Body World" exhibit in Los Angeles a couple years ago. It was so unreal it wound up not being gruesome at all. Some of the "artistry" was kinda lame, tho. Exhibit to show real bodies Museum plans revealing look at cadavers BY JIM KNIPPENBERG Cincinnati will soon host one of the largest, most revealing and perhaps most controversial museum exhibits ever. Opening in January at the Cincinnati Museum Center, "Bodies ... The Exhibition" is a show of 20 human cadavers and 260 body parts, preserved by a process called plastination and exhibited to educate viewers on the workings of the human body. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070730/ENT/707300301

The Enquirers idea of interactivity: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/CINCI/307260049

Teen wins third blue ribbon with brownies First place in chocolate category taken by 14-year-old's brownie cake By Bridgette Outten Saturday, July 28, 2007 Friday evening was a sweet ending to Clark County Fair's week of Dish of the Day competitions. In the fair's only chocolate category, the sole contest of the night, 14-year-old Cally Jones once again edged out her mother, Nina Jones, with a first place mint brownie cake. It was Cally Jones' third first place ribbon this week. ... http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/07/27/sns072807dish.html

Is this a joke ? Do you understand the layout and size of the city at all ?

no help here, as usual, but you soup lovers ever hear of Souplantaion ? http://www.souplantation.com/ All the soup/salad freaks I know who have experienced it have loved it and the ones who know Cinti all want one here. Apparently they don't franchise but they seem to be inching their way here. It's not my cup of tea but even I liked it in LA/Pasadena.

^half the time I don't even know what section I am in because I just click on "recent unread posts". When I decide where to post, I like to think of how an outsider would try to find things. What people don't do much, here, is link to other articles. Say, you could post in the City Discussion forum about how great a town is because of all the cool events and then link to the corresponding events postings in the events section. This might be automatable (?) but it would probably just lead to more problems as almost everybody n Ohio has a county fair or an oktoberfest.

^ It's not engineering ?

I don't know if I am retired, unemployed or disabled. :-) Anyway, 30 yrs in printing/prepress - which I am labeling manufacturing.

Safari does not have the problem with long image posts that FF has. Dunno about IE, Opera, Konqueror or any of the other browsers out there. I am not an admin but I would think the avatars should be SFW or more importantly SF the little children. Schoolkids probably find references to this forum all the time in school project researching.

I get the impression it was not an act of passion. That is, he already knew of the pregnancy. Later when he was out with friends he decided to kill the fetus. Or he went out with his friends for the sole purpose of doing the same. Remember the guy has a history of violence. This was not an isolated incident. But shouldn't the girl be charged with rape of a minor or something ? And shouldn't the people who helped hide him be charged with something like aiding a fugitive ?

Hopefully charges will be filed against the people who were harboring this guy. Part of the problem in this city isn't so much the actual criminals as the whole crime culture. Cops arrest 'Lil Al' BY EILEEN KELLEY A 15-year-old on the run for two weeks after being accused of murder was rousted out of bed on East Tower Drive in Westwood early this morning and locked away. Alfonso “Lil Al” Price is accused of stomping on the swollen belly of his pregnant girlfriend. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/NEWS01/307260015

Springfield gets $2.2 million grant to clean up former International site Soil at the property will be cleared of contamination so it can be developed. By Samantha Sommer Thursday, July 26, 2007 The city of Springfield has received a $2.2 million grant to clean up the former International Truck and Engine Corp. plant on Lagonda Avenue. The Clean Ohio Council approved the grant Wednesday. The grant will be used to remediate contamination in the soil and crush concrete, said Shannon Meadows, executive assistant to the city manager. A lot of new development goes on around the city periphery, she said. But this project will be in the urban core. "It is the largest tract of land we will be able to make available for development in the city school district," Meadows said. The 65-acre site will be redeveloped for light-industrial uses. International closed the former body plant at the site in 2002. International spent about $3 million to demolish buildings on the site. MORE: http://www.springfieldnewssun.com

iPhone Can Now Serve Web Pages, Run Python, Open Source Apps http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/breaking/iphone-can-now-serve-web-pages-run-python-open-source-apps-282139.php

Who makes the decision that it is ok to use the shoulder ? That is - who decides all the criteria are met ? Does the driver just assess the situation or does a dispatcher follow traffic reports and send out an authorization ?

I checked my parents old house. It got a 51. I remember when they bought it, they talked a lot about walking distances to schools and the grocery and stuff because my mom did not drive and my parents just assumed that kids walk to school. One of my pet peeves is people moving out to suburbs and buying houses in a particular school district but assuming they will have bus service for the kids that they will magically never have o pay for.

Fun at the Fair video http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/m/mplayer/m/24347

Closest I have come to a demolition was this place I only visited. It was built by my great grandfather who homesteaded the place about 25 miles out of the bustling metropolis of Redfield SD. It replaced the original sod buildings. In later years the farm was handled by a tenant farmer who wasn't a tenant so the buildings were destroyed. I guess that because there was no easy access to traditional demolition equipment (?), they burned the buildings down. Water was from a well and the toilet was an outhouse.

I was going through some old pics one of my uncles took over his lifetime & thought you guys might like these pics of Chicago from the late 50s. Maybe someone knows what street it is ?

This thread is pretty active. Go back to about page 30 to get an idea of the latest on the actual streetcar project. Keep reading the thread and you will get announcements of meetings and the like Here are links to a couple city PDFs http://www.citystreetcar.net/Presentation/Narrative.pdf http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/city/downloads/city_pdf16341.pdf Welcome aboard !