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Oh-8 with Oprah at The Fox!
by George Sells
Thinking about next season's collection of Broadway Series events at the Fox is kind of like thinking about next season's version of the Rams. It seems a long way off, but some just can't help it.That said, the 08-09 schedule for the Fox is out, and some big names on the Broadway scene will be heading for Grand Boulevard.
In her continued push for global domination, Oprah Winfrey is taking the Broadway version of "The Color Purple" out on the road.
It will open the Fox's season on October 21st. (I'd pair this up with the Rams schedule but no dates have been announced on that front. I hope the play fares better than the scheduled road trip to New England for our football heroes!)After that two week run, "Sweeney Todd" rolls in for a quick, two nighter on November 14th. "Cats" (in my opinion the most over-rated play ever to hit the stage) will close out 2008 November 28-30.
2009 begins with another of the pop-culture movie remakes that have swept New York as "Legally Blond: The Musical" arrives January 20th for a two week stay. Other highlights include "Hairspray," "A Chorus Line,""Rent," and "Mary Poppins." I've got the full schedule below!
2008-2009 U.S. Bank
Broadway Series Shows and Specials: (Subscription Season in
Bold)
Oprah Winfrey presents THE
COLOR PURPLE, October 21-November 2, 2008
SWEENEY TODD, November
14-16, 2008
CATS, November 28-30,
2008
LEGALLY BLONDE the
Musical, January
20-February 1, 2009
The Rep presents SPRING
AWAKENING, February 10-22, 2009
CIRQUE DREAMS JUNGLE FANTASY, March
17-29, 2009
Dance St. Louis presents
STOMP, April 3-5, 2009
HAIRSPRAY, April 24-26,
2009
Dance St. Louis presents RIVERDANCE, May
1-3, 2009
A CHORUS LINE, May
12-24, 2009
RENT, June 2-7, 2009
MARY POPPINS, AUGUST
13-30, 2009
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA,
September 23-October 17,
2009
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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.