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Updated 165 Days ago
My Wife Daisy Paints for the Cure
by Bo Matthews
As many of you know, my wife Daisy is a talented artist. Her most recent orginal was inspired by the upcoming St. Louis Race for the Cure and the first annual Ride for the Cure.
This untitled painting is up for auction on EBay TODAY and all proceeds will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure St. Louis.
Check it out HERE. To see more of Daisy's work visit www.kavanaghtheartist.com
For more info on the first annual J&W Cycles Ride for the Cure, go to www.jwcycles.com.
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Thank you daisy
Thanks again Daisy! Bo, you are a very lucky man... Daisy is one of a kind and so talented.
My suggestion or should I say challenge to WIL aka Bonneville, is to bid on this painting and put it in their lobby to show St. Louis and other visitors how much WIL supports Women, Breast Cancer Fund raisers and St. Louis community. This is an item that will show your guests as they arrive at your studio that YOU CARE!!
Shelly
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.