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Take paper from board
Key in lamp
Hi Dazz : )
Have paper, curly tube and something like flask or bunsen burner. Have used 2-digit code (from wall puzzle) , placed 2 flasks, used key from red lamp. Can home in on yellow lamp.
Got blue bottle from 2-digit drawer by accident, lol
Use both bottles on chemical stand
White round thing to get fire
Three white candles are lit and placed under the 3 bottles for 2#
Pour pink liquid in pool for blue block
4-digit code from blue paper (in new room)
Put bunsen burners under 3 flasks in new room
blue bottle and paper go to black board
Code from 3 flask is for 2-digit drawer - but had already opened it by accident, lol
Tried 4-digit code on keypad - not working. Nothing left in inventory.
Use blackboard (paper) code on PC, then use PC code on keypad. Out. Nice game : )
so you have to light the white burner on the candle in left room and then put it under flask and add tube.
C'mon Dazz, you are doing it to me again. I can't place candles I can't even find.
I am stuck with a white paper and a blue block. No idea what to do with either. I only see 2 rooms and can't find anything else to do.
This game is screwed up, just checked the walkthrough. You need to open 2# cupboard to get three digit code and the hint is behind the 3# door you can't open.
Put the blue block under the yellow lamp and then turn the lamp on. That will give you the 3# code.
Very straightforward
Find 1 number to find another number tofind another number
Alittle pointless
Lol Joe!!!
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Sketchup and Layout for Architects – The newest sketchup book published by Nick Sonder & Matt Donley
- V-Ray for Sketchup
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Both Nick Sonder and Matt Donley have recently introduced their newest book, SketchUp & LayOut for Architecture. This sketchup book will provide useful guidance on how to apply SketchUp and LayOut to create the design as well as document any architectural project from preliminary to finishing stage.
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Be familiar with applying numerous viewports in LayOut to demonstrate any section cuts evidently and at the same time applying colorful textures to the model.
Describe the level of detail necessary in your model to facilitate the users to implement quick modifications during every stage of design. Besides, one can also come to know the application of SketchUp and LayOut templates to optimize the workflow.
The book contains a complete sample project to allow you discovering a real project and understand how it is arranged. Besides, an entire set of template files are contained within the book so that one can customize them according to choice.
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She feels most comfortable stacked with friends Tribal Door and 101 Nights rings to frame her beauty.
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I was daydreaming and came across this from our friends at Zoe and Morgan .
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Had the Falcons simply run three times — even if they failed to gain a single yard — kicker Matt Bryant would have been in position for a quite reasonable 39-yard field goal attempt. In his career, Bryant is 31-for-32 on field goals of 40 yards or shorter in the fourth quarter or overtime, according to research from Micah Adams of ESPN Stats & Information.
As owner Robert Kraft said in the days leading up to Super Bowl LI, Deflategate penalties levied by the NFL against Brady and the team had a deeply rooted impact on the 2016 Patriots. Brady was hit with a four-game suspension for the January 2015 incident that months of court battles couldn't overturn. Meanwhile, the Patriots were fined $1 million and docked a first-round pick in 2016 and a fourth-round pick in 2017.
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All the way to a record fifth Super Bowl championship, with no more talk of underinflated footballs.
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These paper pieced patterns are by "Quilt Art Designs".
I have two more houses really close to done that I hope to post in a day or two and then two more that are not started.
Let's take a look at my design walls. I have two in my sewing room with a total of three projects on them. On the left is my son's medallion quilt with only the middle done. I want the top done by July when he comes home from his mission in Germany.
On the right is my sliced quilt challenge that goes with the houses I am paper piecing. I think they are going to look good together.
Below is my Diamond Hill quilt awaiting the borders that need to be appliqued. This quilt is on my list to finish this year as well. You can see my other house and church on the side next to it.


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Each year there are only a handful of designers who present couture collection: Chanel, Gaultier, Valentino, Givenchy, etc. For the most part, the haute couture garments that grace the runways are the result of hundreds of hours of hand-stitching, beading, and lace work. The cost for these pieces starts in the five figure area and goes quickly up from there. Each item is custom ordered and hand-tailored for the buyer. For the people who can afford the garments (and the trips to Paris for multiple fittings) they usually only buy one, sometimes two pieces per season. But this spring there were so many amazingly gorgeous (and shockingly wearable) dresses, how would you choose?
Jean Paul Gaultier:
(I have to admit that this particular dress is so beautiful, I would consider all manner of things - selling a kidney or first born child - to get it)
Christian Lacroix:
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
runway. faves...{couture}
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I'm not sure that selling your first born would make you enough to pay for that dress, lol, but it if it works let me know!
- April 9, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Natalie said...
the Gaultier dress?! amazing.
- April 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM
- PrettyLittleWorld said...
It's so pretty and unusual - I've never seen anything quite like it! I honestly believe that if I had to choose between buying my own house and that dress, I'd go for the dress!!
- April 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM
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CORREA's War
Linked with Luis Macas Ambulud� – Ecuador.
Published on the Guardian, by Mark Weisbrot, July 26, 2007.
2 excerpts: In his recent book The Assault on Reason, former vice-president Al Gore describes how "the potential for manipulating mass opinions and feelings initially discovered by commercial advertisers is now being even more aggressively exploited by a new generation of media Machiavellis." The concentration of broadcast media ownership is indeed a real threat to democracy, as we learned the hard way when more than 70% of Americans were convinced, falsely, that Saddam Hussein was involved in the attacks of September 11 – thus enabling the launch of a disastrous and unnecessary war in Iraq …
… In fact he (Ricardo Patino) states that it would be wrong to manipulate the market. The meeting ends with one of the investors stating that nothing would be done regarding the current debt payment – which was due three days after the videotaped meeting – but that they could think about what to do in the future.
But the TV media's repeated, propagandistic images – playing on people's cynicism from decades of corrupt government – had the most influence. This emboldened the opposition to make more wild allegations of secret deals with foreign banks, and vote to censure Patino in the Congress – which they control. All of this has been done without anyone presenting evidence that the finance minister was involved in any wrongdoing.
If all this seems Orwellian, it is. Ecuador currently has the most honest government it has ever had – that is why it has had so much support from the beginning. Yet the impression that is coming across in the media – both Ecuadorian and now spilling over into the international press – is one of corruption.
Correa remains immensely popular, and he has defended Patino, who has now taken another cabinet position. The government will survive this assault, and move forward with its agenda. But the opposition, led by the traditional elite and corrupt politicians, will use this "scandal" – with the help of the media – to undermine the government and the reforms that the voters have chosen. (full long text).


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Finally, consider the price. Just because an electric bike is expensive doesn't make it the best. The Cheapest bikes are not always the worst either. Nonetheless, you want to make sure you get what you pay for, which is why researching bikes and comparing them is crucial.
You should buy this electric bike because of how fun they are to use, and they make for a great alternate mode of transportation. If you want to save money on gas and get to and from work with relative ease and now have to worry about getting stuck in traffic, then buy an electric fat bike mid. Not only that, but they make for great gifts, so if you're looking to give someone a gift they will love and use for a longtime to come, get this bike for them. You can even buy one for yourself, and a friend and you guys can go biking together, but it will be far more fun than using a traditional bike.
As soon as you get on an electric fat bike mid drive, you will not go back to any other kind of electrical bike. These bikes are fun and reliable. All you have to do now is start comparing a few bikes from various sellers and then buy the electric bike you like the most.
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Kohlrabi is another vegetable that is everywhere in Central Europe, and I quite like its flavor, though it is not very strong. It has a bit of a peppery flavor, so it goes well with mustard dressing.
Wash, peel and slice a kohlrabi into manageable pieces. Whip up a mustard dressing by mixing equal parts vinegar, oil, and grainy mustard with some salt and pepper. You can sweeten this with a bit of honey if you want, or just leave it as is, depending your mustard and your tastes. Toss kohlrabi with mustard dressing to coat and serve.


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So, let's catch up.
Actually, Since I'm in britain, and everything is backwards here, let's tell the stories in reverse.
So I'm staying in a hostel in Bayswater, which is very grungy. Its cool, but i'm not sure I trust the people who rent rooms here, so I have more fears for my things which basically means I have to always put my bags behind the front desk which is super annoying to do all the time.
So, getting into the UK was difficult, they singled me out in immigration and put me through the ringer for about 6hours about my purpose in the UK. They actually made me open my bank accounts and said I didn't have enough money to do the kind of traveling I said I was going to do. And I asked them what numbers they were basing this off and they wouldn't say. They actually went through all my journals and computer and everything. While I was in holding, there was another guy who was getting the boot, so I was super nervous. However, he was someone who overstayed his visa. Finally, the office, calls me out, and is holding my passport and journals in a zip-locked baggy. "Do you want the good news or the bad news". I was so exhausted at this point, I just said, whichever, just tell me.
"The good news is you're getting your passport back."
"ok so whats the bad news".
"You are free to go"….
arg, he was just messing me with…
So I took the train to Victoria Station, and I was right in the middle of rush hour, so while I was getting off a train, I felt like I was trying to jump onto a moving train, it was so chaotic. It wasn't anymore chaotic than NY's rush hour, really, but now I was the tourist which sucked. People were not really interested in being asked which way the Tube was or which line Bayswater(where my hostel is) is off of, etc etc. London's tube system is definitely several orders of magnitude more complex than NY's. In NY, if its a numbered street, you have an idea where to look on the map. Everything here is named, and named something really weird like mudchute, or elephant and castle. Ok ok, they're probably just weird to the naive american but still its not organized well(for naive americans).
Then, I got off the tube. I asked the train dude how to get to the address I was looking for, and he gave a couple of short turns to make. Easy. Nope. Somehow I found my hostel, but even today I still haven't really figured out how the street signs work here. The signs are posted to the sides of buildings and aren't always posted or are posted in a direction that you aren't looking or posted high up on a building that is obscured by a tree. Also, sometimes the street signs have multiple versions of them, and seem to be followed by a W2 or W11 or something, not sure…I have a street map, but the one I have(given by the hostel) seems to have no rhyme or reason to when it wants to include a side street or not.
After wandering around last night after I dropped my bags, I seem to have a much better feel for things, hey, I even found a cafe with free wifi while most other places charge.
Also, This morning I did laundry which officially makes my laundry rate higher while traveling than while at home.
I also got a UK sim card. The phone number, I believe, is:+44 xx-xxx-xxxxx. So please put this in your address books so you recognize calls/texts from it. I put 5 pounds of money on it, so I will only use it sparingly. I also paid 5pounds for a data plan which is unlimited for the month for basic surfing, and email is included in that, so that's probably the best way of contacting me.
Phew, ok, that covers my entry in the UK, traveling back in time a bit, my last day in Iceland(the summer solistice) was awesome. I watched the sunset and after a few hours rise again while in a hot tub in a penthouse apartment overlooking the sea only a few buildings away which was quite convenient. Especially considering the fact that I totally lost track of time(its hard to realize its 5am when its bright out), because the bus to go to the airport was supposed to pick me up at 5am. Being in the hot tub, I took of my watch, sigh…and when I got out it was exactly 5am! So i raced downstairs and next door and the bus was there waiting with everyone on it. Also, I might add that I stupidly left my pants(jess I had a bathing suit on, chill…) right next to the tub. But luckily only ONE pant leg was completely soaked. So picture me racing with one wet pant leg racing by a bus full of people annoyed that I'm holding them up, and I run into the hostel, smashed everything I had into the bag, and race back to the bus, still wearing my pants with a wet pant leg because I certainly didn't have enough time to change. Now I'll admit, we had been drinking since midnight-ish, not overly, but consistently. So i'm still pretty drunk(with a wet pant leg) getting on the bus. very embarrasing. So we get to the airport. Now, I know you are all shaking your head at what an idiot I am. But wait there's more. But first, lets talk of something intelligent that I did. Prior to going out, I returned the bike I had rented(when i could've kept it till morning), but also, I booked the bus back to the airport an hour prior to when most people would've booked their bus, just so I would have extra time to handle ANY mishap. So when I arrive to the airport at 5:30am, I have plenty of time before my flight at 8:50am. I immediately make my way with my bags to the bathroom and change clothes stuffing my wet pants into an outer compartment of my suitcase with some other dirty clothes. Btw these wet clothes did not make my life easier as UK immigration authorities are rummaging through my bags and are wondering why i have wet clothes packed, the details of which I have to fully reveal.
So I change and clean myself and get my drunk self as respectable as I can, and stumble through security. Well, I wasn't that bad, I don't think. I made it through security no problem. The way it works is that once you clear security, you can wait in the terminal where all the shops are, and then there is passport control which once you pass you are in a room right next to the gate with barely no amenities except maybe a vending machine. So I have an hour or two before boarding, so I decide to wait and charge my devices and relax for a minute before doing some duty free shopping. I sit, plugin my phone, and blink and look at my watch and its 8:50am! oh crap, i'm f-ing missing my flight, how is this possible?? i wipe the crust from my eyes, and look at my ticket, it says 8:55am. I've got 5 minutes. Packed up my cords and raced to passport control, I was the only one there, I fly through that and go downstairs, and to the gate. They take my ticket, one of the lady smiles, the other is annoyed. At this airport the plane is on the runway, no jetway. So i'm sprinting across the tarmac, with dry pants this time! towards the plane, and climb the staircar into the plane. Oh, how I have such fondness for staircars, even in a half drunk, half asleep, half adrenaline riddled state(note: .5+.5+.5 = 1.5 consciousness's, this is an accurate depiction of my mental state.). So, The plane is mostly packed with some empty seats, and I find some midly overweight middle age american lady in my aisle seat, who says, "ugh, we've been waiting for you…"…and she gets up and goes to her actual seat, which undoubtedly was a middle seat. And that's it, I fly to London, without incident. Until, of course, I hit immigration(see above).
Before meeting our friends who owned the penthouse, I was doing an interview. I alluded to this partly and to some of you and in different ways. If it hasn't been clear, part of this trip was to go to different people and different organizations who are doing environmentally
sustainable things and to profile them on a travel blog I plan to create. So, a day or two after I landed in reykyavik, I rented a bike with a plan to bike a long the shore and visit the public pool(which was supposed to be nicer than the blue lagoon) and the city zoo. So I'm biking along a pristine icelandic shoreland, and the trail dips inward for a bit to accomodate some houses along the shore. I see a sign pointing outward towards the shore for a museum. So I say hey, why not, a short detour. From the trail I can see a modern(read: ugly) house with some abstract stone sculptures(read: see previous note) outside. Whatever, I continue, maybe I'll get some good photos. As I approach, I start seeing some more interesting sculptures off to the side made of metal and different colors and wacky shapes creating interesting jagged silhouettes against the horizon. There also seems to be a building with a similar theme. The trail splits and I have to choose between the modern building and the interesting building. So as I approach the interesting building, it gets more and more interesting. The whole outer frame of the house seems to be made of old iron and reused ship and dock parts. There is some sort of silo or tank filled with, lets say, an erotic scultpure. As I proceed around the back I meet an old man with shoulder length wild white icelandic hair and another gentleman that he is speaking in icelandic. He says, "welcome, welcome", come take as many photos as you like and put this on Google Earth.". ok….so this place is insane and I can't stop taking photos. Every nook and cranny is filled with something interesting. There is a giant tractor tire swing. Masks that are definitely not icelandic. Wood carved hands that jut out of the house and are pointing their middle finger at me. Ship anchors, rusted tire rims, lanterns older than i am, old buoys that make up a fence, a television antennae reshaped into a bird. I can go on…for a while.
So as I wander around the property, and make my way to the backyard where there are the remnants of a very festive party. Deflated ballons, match sticks, empty wine and vodka bottles, plates that have dried cake crumbs on them. I begin to realize, this isn't the museum the sign was pointing to, its just somebody's house. I hear the older man now talking to a child inside the house. I try to interrupt but they don't hear. I feel like I'm intruding now. After a 4th attempt, I get their attention and apologize and say I thought this was the museum. He says its no problem and that I should take as many pictures as I like. He says "This is the greatest experiment that ever was. Everything here is reused and found from somewhere else", and that unfortunately he must go and take his child somewhere, otherwise he would show me around but that I should continue taking pictures and put them on Google Earth. He drives away and I try to take a picture of everything on the outside of the house. I can tell the inside of the house is just as, if not more, interesting than the outside. I resolve to myself that I must meet this guy properly and do my first story for my travel blog on him. I think to myself, I've hit the motherload. To me this was a bit of providence because I was not even planning on doing a story in iceland, and look at what I had landed myself into. The next few days I had tours booked blah blah blah, you know, snowmobiling and hiking on a glacier, blah blah blah, standing at the tip of a volcano crater, blah blah blah…On the day of the solstice, I planned to keep open to do some shopping, and maybe go to the blue lagoon, and also touch base with him and see if I could have him answer a few questions. After I returned from meeting him the first time, and returned the bike, I told the hostel clerk about him, and she says, yes yes, I know him. His name is Hrafn Gunnlaugsson He is very famous in iceland. He is a movie director and has made the first authentic viking films from Iceland and he is very well revered because of this. However, despite this, he is in trouble with the government because they don't like his house. They don't want people to see his crazy art and have told him to remove it. I think to myself: double score, political strife in trying to do something environmental. It really is kind of the perfect story. So anyway, I do some souvenir shopping on the 21st of June, and bike over to his house again. When I meet him again, he is with another gentleman in overalls and they seem to be working on some construction, taking measurements and demarcating lines, and so on. He is very busy and I novicely try to ask him some questions. I'm incredibly nervous. He is very brief with me. I decide to stick it out and just take pictures while he does his thing. After about 20 minutes of anxiously waiting and watching him work, I resolve to leave my business card for my TechforProgress website with him and see if we can reconvene, or do some email interview or something as I'm leaving tomorrow. Finally, he apologizes and says he is very busy and will be available to talk later tonight at 7:30pm. He takes my card and actually sends me an email with his contact information, and also gives me a documentary dvd he made about iceland and reykyavik.
So I take this, and bike back to my hostel, and resolve: fuck the blue lagoon, i need to do my research. So I watch about half of his dvd and look at his website. Unfortunately, most of it is in icelandic, but there is one interview published in the english speaking local paper, The grapevine, which provided a lot of great information. I also google "interviewing for dummies". I actually found a really great website on journalism tutorials: http://stringers.
media.mit.edu/journalism.htm hahaha
So to make a short story even longer, oh, i'll make it shorter, I go back, do the interview, and its amazing to learn all about the house, the history, how its built, how he reused materials, etc etc. I took video on my phone, so I hope it turns out well…he's pretty hilarious. He heckled snooty tourists who turned their noses up at his art.
Now I just need to process the photos and videos and write the story. I'm not really sure what to do with the video, if I'm going to post it or not…it'll really delay the publication of the story.
As I've spoken to photographers in the past and even ones I've met on this trip, the idea is to create the idea and do the stories, and then try to push them to major publications and get paid for them, and get paid to travel and do more stories. I don't know, that's sort of where I'm heading with this idea…I just need to execute.
Now my fingers are tired. In other news, my back is doing great and the rest of me feels great. Actually, since I've been here typing this up, my back is starting to bother me(i think its just muscular though). I think i just need to keep moving and I'll be alright. My chiro said sitting is one of the worst things for your back.
How are you guys feeling after reading this narrative? I don't know about you, but i'm pooped. More pooped after writing this all than actually experiencing it all, which is odd, isn't it? haha
Well, I plan to be in London through the weekend and then hopefully head up to Scotland early next week. I'm meeting my friend Ivana this weekend and a few other people I have made connections with as well. I've got a ton of photos from iceland(especially the crazy recycled house) to get uploaded so stay tuned.


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At Epitome, the arrival of Spring/Summer comes with the excitement of deliveries of collections for the season ahead. This season we're excited to be stocking three brands with a focus on Japanese design. Engineered Garments FWK - which has been a customer favourite for three seasons - is designed by Japanese born Daiki Suzuki and made in New York. We're happy to introduce two new brands that are made in Japan: Blue Blue Japan and OrSlow.
Each brand has a strong focus on the origin of the garments and sustainability through simple designs and quality materials. These are three brands you need to know about this season.
Firstly, Cult Japanese label Blue Blue Japan launched in the early 1990s and grew in popularity due to its unique use of natural indigo dye. The collection is designed and made in Japan using traditional techniques of dyeing and construction. Crafted from the best quality fabrics and centred around indigo dye, each garment is made to develop a distinctive appearance.
Each garment goes through an extensive process of traditional dying. The traditional dying process consists of dipping the garment into the dye mix, oxidizing with fresh air, rinsing in water, and sun drying. These steps are repeated 4-5 times to create the deep indigo colour Blue Blue Japan is recognised for. This long process shows the quality and craftsmanship that goes into each individual garment from the brand.
The collection features flag print t-shirts subtly hinting to the Japanese origins of the brand. Along with beautiful, deep indigo trousers and dresses that can be matched with an indigo shirt or paired with a plain white blouse. Seen below is the Indigo Linen Printed Engineer Coat with the Cutwork Cotton Raglan Shirt and Indigo Rayon/Linen Relaxed Wide Pant.
Next, a popular brand with Epitome customers, Engineered Garments FWK that was founded by Daiki Suzuki in 1999. The brand name emerged after a pattern maker hired to draft the first patterns for the label considered the clothes to be 'engineered' due to the vast amount of detailing involved in each garment. It was from this the name Engineered Garments was born.
Japanese born Suzuki grew up coveting American sportswear. Details inspired by this sportswear, along with outdoor clothing and military uniforms, all continue to be included in his collections. Daiki says "It is these clothes which I want to make, clothes that you love wearing and become yours through the experience you have with them".
Their Spring/Summer 2017 collection brings Engineered's classic relaxed tailoring in a range of block colours and stripes. Below is the Baker Jacket Grey/White Seersucker Stripe, with the 19th Century BD Shirt White 100's 2ply and Willy Post Pant Grey/White Seersucker. Accessorised with the Long Apron H. Grey Lt Weight Twill and Piped Pocket Square Grey Stripe.
Finally, OrSlow, created by designer Ichiro Nakasu, is a Japanese brand influenced by vintage army and workwear. The brand name, and concept, derives from the words Originality & Slow. OrSlow's ethos is to design clothes 'slowly': the antithesis of today's fast paced fashion industry. Their focus is on sustainability where they care less about consumption and more about the process of design and ethical production. Their sustainable ethos translates into timeless designs and use of the best quality fabrics that really will only get better with age.
Each garment is simple yet highly detailed and OrSlow consider each garment to be adaptable to different styles and different times. The garments are produced on traditional, and now extremely rare, sewing machines from the 1960s which adds to the brands vintage vibe.
In their collection dominated by denim, we have utility style jackets, jeans, skirts and shirts that can be easily put together to create an effortlessly stylish spring outfit. Seen here is the 50's Coverall Jacket, Long Work Shirt White and the New Yorker Pant Army.
At Epitome, we identify with the sustainable ethos of these brands. We want to support this side of the fashion industry and combat the fast fashion we are so used to seeing today by stocking ethical brands we're passionate about. We know our customers believe in each brand we hand pick and want to bring you the best collections from Japan and beyond.Back to Blog


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Alaska. Route 66. Incredible thunderstorms, raging forest fires, dense smoke, hail, sleet, cops, a half-a-dozen paramedics, bears, and even a dragon or two…you know…the usual stuff.
Daniel Meyer is the author of the award winning Life Is a Road motorcycle adventure book series. Go visit www.lifeisaroad.com for previews of the stories, reviews, or to purchase books online.


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20 Winter Nail Designs To Cuddle Up With
Thanksgiving is officially over, and there's a fresh chill in the air. Winter is on its way! Chances are with this holiday, you'll be decking out a house with candles, lights and maybe even a Christmas tree, but hat about yourself?
Trends are constantly changing, so you can really only do what suits your own style. Whether you like bold and beautiful or subtle and sexy, there is a wintertime look that will suit you perfectly. But we aren't just talking about the bigger things,like the shoes or clothes you wear. We're taking it down to the nitty-gritty details of what will be screaming winter on your fingernails during this holiday season!
Nail art has come a long way over the years. As early as 3000 BC, people were using nail polish in China, and the Ancient Egyptians used it as well! From China, the nail polish craze spread across India, the Middle East and northern Africa. Once we reached the 19th century, nail polish just started to reach the US, England and France markets. In the 1920s and 1930s, France started to see manicure establishments popping up in any medium to large city!Modern day nail polish as we know it was spurred on by the creation of automobile paint. In 1932, Revlon became the first to create a nail polish line for women.
In recent years, nail art has become a sort of addiction on the global market. In 2012, nail polish sales soared, reaching over 750 million dollars! With the wide variety of nail art you can have done to your fingertips, it can be quite overwhelming. Did you know there are thirteen types of nail polish finishes you can request? How on earth will you every decide!
This winter, we decided to focus on some holiday favorites of ours so you don't have to rack your brain trying to figure out what will look best on your nails. Whether you're feeling elegant or playful, we have a design for you. Your imagination is your only limitation, and we think you can add and change these designs to suit your style. No matter whether you like your nails short or long, rounded or pointy at the tips, we've compiled some of the coolest nail art designs for this winter season. So what are you waiting for? Grab some of that hot chocolate and cozy up by the fire, or if you're feeling adventurous, go out for a night on the town with your friends. You'll all dolled up, nails and all, so get ready to party this holiday season!


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Enter the name of the competitions (eg. Premier League, FA Cup).
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We do this collaborative zine once in a while where, at a show, we'll set out art supplies and ask people to make stuff with them. Then we put them all together. The latest issue was just released which you can find here: issuu.com/failedorbitrecords/docs/failedorbitzine2
Participate in our 3rd issue by coming to our show on Sunday, July 31st at the Manifest!
Poncho, Emu Attack, Rotten Blossom, and Joe Gonzalez are playing.
It's another fundraiser to help us bring down the band Blowout, who are coming down to play a couple of shows in September.
Blowout just released a new track titled "cents cents money money" that was just released and available to stream here: http://www.avclub.com/article/blowout-searches-right-words-cents-cents-money-mon-239847
We'll have raffles and prizes to give out, too.
All Ages / 12-5PM / $5
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This week in class we read Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins! We were practicing the initial /p/ sound.
This is a cute book with lots of rhyming and problem solving. At the end, they eat pumpkin pie. Our question of the day was "Do you like to eat pumpkin pie?" Many of the kids said yes, but there were a few avid nay sayers :)
During centers, children got to take turns bowling. After practicing target words correctly, they got a turn to knock down the /p/ins with the /p/umpkin! (In the book, the pumpkins become the "hill rolling bowling ball kind). This activity was a huge hit and our pumpkin ended up losing his nose... but it was found and reattached!
We also did a Purple Pumpkin Pail sound bucket full of items starting with /p/ which each child got a turn with.
Home Activity:
Print off these initial /p/ words and cut them apart. Place them on the floor in random arrangements, facing up or down (you can choose!). Use a beanbag or small stuffed animal and toss it, trying to land on a card. When you land on a card, say that word 10 times! Make sure your child uses their good /p/ sound!


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Sad because it is sooo true!
Call it a compilation of all the crazy projects I've come up with over the years. Call it a how-to for things around the house. Call it whatever you like :) It's what I do everyday. My blog is really just a way for me to share what I've learned over the years about home improvement, interior design, organization, diy, crafting and home repair. And most importantly it comes from always working on a budget and forever wanting to fend for myself when it comes to anything. I hope you enjoy (and learn a few things along the way :)
Thursday, November 8, 2012
First Mammogram :$
So I turned forty this year, and its time for my first mammogram. In honor of this wonderful experience and a great friend who has since moved away, I thought I would post something she said to me one time that made me roll with laughter.
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The hem is straight, it's just how it hangs on this hanger!
This time I tried adding an inch above the elbow and an inch below. I'd noticed on previous versions that the elbow dart doesn't seem to be in the correct place and I think that's because I used the pattern's lengthening lines to add my 2".
I added the usual 2" to body length and decided to use facings instead of making bias binding as this fabric is about the finest I've sewn with recently. The facings worked fine and were the right choice but I think I'm a bias-binding girl at heart! I'm not sure if I'll need to have a camisole underneath but it's been too cold at home to put this on I'll have to wait to see if the elbow dart placement is improved. That's why the coat hanger is modelling it for you! I know a lot of bloggers apologise for their photos but I'd rather see the finished garments than not at all. I'm a sewist not a photographer.
Here's a close-up of a good zip insertion, even if I do say so myself (!) -
Again, the pattern matching could be better but I can see improvement every time I try to do this better. The lines of pattern are absolutely horizontal in real life, honest! And here's a close-up of the fabric, in case you haven't seen enough of it already!
I really did raid the John Lewis fabric sale. Twice! This is some of the fabric I bought but I've got tons at home, some of it just waiting for the right pattern, while others are in the queue in my head! I've sewn so much patterned fabric recently I feel I'd like to do some plain fabrics just to give my brain a rest.
What's on your sewing table? Or in the queue in your head?


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http://www.brains-N-brawn.com/aiTabletOCR 9/28/2004
this article will detail my transition into Artificial Intelligence programming. it will start out with an overview of neural networks and how i applied one to do custom OCR (optical character recognition) and stroke-based handwriting recognition of ink for the Tablet PC. the title is misleading. OCR did not work so well, but the stroke-based approach did. there is a video clip of it working below.
at the end of last year, right after finishing the 1st implementations of Crypto and WSE for CF (now /cfAES and /cfWSE2 ) ... started looking for the next problem to tackle. specifically wanted to code something WITHOUT a specification (did you get it? 'specifically' without a 'specification'). doing crypto and web services had gotten monotonous. from the crypto side, all you have to do is get the bytes in the proper order; and from the WS side, all you have to do is shape the XML according to the specs. boring ... what i needed was some chaos ... and this is where AI came into play. had no previous AI experience, so i started reading book after book. even attempted a couple AI-esque type projects to see what i was in for:
learned alot from those projects, but none of them used any traditional AI techniques. they both just consisted of procedural code to process the data directly. in one case the input data was an image, and in the other case the input was sound. in the same spirit of why i wrote /noReco, i decided to try ink recognition next because i had been doing a bunch of Tablet PC programming, and wanted to get a better idea of how that might work.
started out reading a bunch of AI books. these are mostly a sorry breed. on one end you have history books telling what types of applications people were building, and on the other end you have educational books with page after page of mind numbing mathematics. there is a very limited number of books that explain the 'concepts' outside of the mathematical realm and about how to 'apply' these techniques. why is that? when i read about ADO.NET ... i dont get force fed relational algebra / calculus.
the history of AI is that it started out around 1960, everybody loved it because of early positive results. the thought was that we were going to build general-purpose thinking machines to solve all problems. then people started pointing out more problems than they were solving ... and everybody jump shipped. the realization was that what was hard for people is easy for computers; and what is easy for people is hard for computers. for about 20 years, only the crazy people did AI ... or you went underground and called it something else. everybody else went and worked on setting up the internet to better distribute free music and porn. during that time, the concept of AI gave us a bunch of mean hollywood robots (HAL 9000, Terminator, and now the Matrix and iRobot). finally, people had too much music and porn to be able to manage it all ... and the AI people popped their heads up and said 'we can help'. so since about 1990, AI has slowly come back on the scene. instead of trying to make a know-it-all machine, it has been applied to very specific problems ... such as kicking the russians ass at chess (a continuation of the cold war ... because we can never have too many wars going on at the same time).
AI is starting to become common-place. when speech recognition takes off ... it uses AI. if you have a Tablet PC ... the ink recognition is AI. if you've seen those image database applications that can find similar pictures and peoples faces ... AI. your XBOX enemies, stopping spam, etc. take a look at googles job boards ... they want AI. not to mention MS and IBM have alot of AI guys in their research departments. some of the cooler features of Longhorn (natural language search) are using AI.
AI can be further divided based on what approach they take. the 2 main camps are symbolic processing and connectivist. the symbolic group (old school) is about writing the logic and knowledge representation to make machines think. this is most similar to everyday programming. their key successes are expert systems, knowledge bases, and fuzzy logic. the connectivists (new school) are more about modeling AI along the lines as our own brain works. their key successes are neural networks and decision trees. more recently, the trends are towards genetic programming and emergence of intelligent behavior from chaos.
each AI technique is better suited to solve specific problems. if i was an expert at something or had a knowledge base ... then i would write an expert system. i would do something else if i had alot of business logic rules to work with. fuzzy logic is particularly good at working with imprecise data. for this particular problem, neural nets seemed like a good fit. although other techniques can certainly be used. i specifically remember seeing Hidden Markov Models being mentioned ... heard of them before, but dont remember what they are?
Neural Networks (NN) are modeled after the way our brain works. basically it is a bunch of neurons (something like 10 to 100 billion) that are connected together. as we learn, some of those connections become stronger. so if we see something with our eyes, that info will take a path through the neurons, and ultimately we recognize the object that we have just seen. when you drink, it slows down those connections and messes them up a bit ... thus slurred speech and beer goggles. anyways, we dont care about the brain ... we want to make some code work
so the basic concepts of an NN are that the Network is made up of Layers. these Layers are for Input and Output. there also might be some Hidden layers. each Layer is made up of Nodes. all a Node does is store a value called its Activation, and possibly an Error. each Node from a Layer will connect to all the Nodes of the next Layer. the simplest Networks only have an Input Layer and an Output Layer. so each Node from the Input Layer would Link to every Node of the Output Layer. each one of these Links stores a value with is the Weight of how strong that connection is. the most commonly used Networks have 3 layers (Input, Hidden, and Output). the Nodes from Input connect to Hidden, and the nodes from Hidden connect to Output. So it is a FeedForward system, moving from Input to Output. you can have multiple Hidden Layers, but just having 1 seems to be the most common. NOTE there are some NNs that loop back. these are called Recurrent Networks and are not used all that often
the number of Input Nodes will depend on your input data. the input data will be some array of values between 1 and -1. the pic above shows images of an X and O. to convert that to input data, you have to divide the image up (in this example 5x5). then if a cell is not red, its value is 0; and 1 if the cell is red. so the Input Layer for the NN would have 25 Nodes. and the value for each Node would be one of the characters from the strings below (read right-to-left and top-down)
in the real world, your input values will vary more widely, and you will have to use some function to normalize them. e.g. divide each value by the max value in the array
the number of Output Nodes will depend on how many patterns you need to recognize. for the X and O example, you would need only 1 Output Node. if its value was greater than .5 then it would be X, and if it was less than .5 then the answer was O. if you are trying to recognize 10 digits, then you would have 10 Output Nodes. each Output Node would correspond to 1 digit and the answer would be the Node that had the highest Activation after the NN was run.
the number of Hidden Nodes will vary based on your problem. i've seen samples that have more Hidden Nodes than Input Nodes, the same number of Hidden Nodes as Input Nodes, and less Hidden Nodes than Input Nodes. the rule of thumb seems to be # Hidden Nodes = (# Input Nodes + # Output Nodes) / 2. if that does not work, then slowly add more Hidden Nodes (and possibly more Hidden Layers).
that gives you the structure of the NN. just a bunch of Nodes with Activation values connected by a bunch of Links with Weight values. before we can actually use the NN, we have to train it. 1) the Network starts out with all random Link values between -.5 and .5 ... so at this point, it is stupid. (most of the code i have seen started out with random values between 1 and -1, but the books i read favored -.5 and .5). training involves feeding in input data with known output data (i've seen these pairs called Patterns). you set the input values on each Input Node. 2) then some math happens in 2 parts to compute the values from the Input Nodes and their Links to the Hidden Nodes. 2a) each Hidden Node has a Link to each Input Node. the Hidden Nodes value is then equal to the total of each Links Weight * the Activation of that Links Input Node. 2b) second, that total is run through what is called a Transfer function. the default one is called a 'sigmoid' (1/(1+Math.Exp(-x)) pictured above, but other common ones are 'step' and 'gaussian'. so now each Hidden Node will have some positive Activation value between 0 and 1. 3) the same process will then occur to compute the Activation value of the Output Nodes from its Links to the Hidden Nodes and their Activation values. the Output Nodes will now have some value between 0 and 1. if the NN were already trained, at this point you would just see which Output Node had the highest Activation ... and that would be your answer. if not, then you have to train it. NOTE the Transfer functions might also introduce the concept of Bias.
4) the next step to train, is to calculate the error value for each Output Node. the function to determine Output Node error is (output[x].Activation * (1 - output[x].Activation ) * (desiredOutputs[x] - output[x].Activation )). the desiredOutput is what value the Output Node should have had. e.g. for the X and 0 example, if i passed in X, then the single Output Node should have returned 1. if i had 10 Output Nodes to recognize the digits between 0 and 9 respectively, and passed in 0 for input, then the 1st Output Node should be 1 and all the rest should be 0. 5) then we have to calculate the error value for each Hidden Node. this is another 2 step process which involves totaling up each Links Weight * its Output Nodes Error. that total is then multiplied to the current Nodes Activation to set the Hidden Nodes error value. NOTE you can add up all the error values of the Output Nodes to get the total error of the NN for that run.
6) with the errors calculated, the next part is to adjust the Weights of the Links. this also works backwards from the Output Nodes to the Input Node Links. for each Hidden-Output Link, its new Weight value is equal to its (currentWeight + hiddenActivation * outputError * learningRate). learningRate is just a value between 0 and 1. this keeps the values from shifting to rapidly so that it keeps from over and undershooting the correct outputs during training. the lower the learningRate the longer training will take, but it gives you a better change of getting good results. from what i've read, .2 seems to be a decent starting rate for learning. 7) this same calculation then happens to calculate the new Weights for each Input-Hidden Link. at this point, all the weights have been adjusted, and the NN is slightly more intelligent. NOTE the calculations for Weights sometimes use the concept of Momentum.
steps 1-7 above show the scenario of training for 1 input. but this has to happen many times for the weights to be adjusted correctly. for the digit problem, you would want to train it using each of the 10 digits. doing a complete training cycle of all 10 inputs is called an Epoch. you will have to train it for many Epochs. the 1st step is to train it until it correctly recognizes all the Inputs within a single Epoch (that might take 500 Epochs). the 2nd step is to randomly order the inputs for each Epoch. i.e. dont submit 0-9 in the same order every time. it will take more Epochs to learn in this manner, but will have less error (this might take 750 Epochs). the 3rd step is to total the error for each Epoch and then keep running it until that error is below some threshold such as .1 (this might take 2000 Epochs to reach). NOTE you do not want to keep training it for trainings sake. at some point it becomes overspecialized and cannot handle noise in the data. if it is not overtrained, then it can take your input that is slightly off, and has a chance of coming up with the correct output answer as its best guess. this ability to handle bad data is what makes AI so appealing to me. otherwise you have to write code to handle tons of special cases for bad data, which makes the code unmaintainable as more special cases appear
that is it ... the NN is now trained. now you would feed it real-world input data (without knowing what the output is yourself), run steps 1-3 above, and the NN would output what it thinks the answer is. you can also look at the error for that output to see how confident it is in that answer. finally, you can look at the other output values and their error to see what the next-best answers are (2nd best guess, and so on)
the above describes what is called a BackPropagation NN. it is the most common NN that seems to be used 80% of the time. there are many other types. some more basic types, but very similar, are called Perceptrons and Adaline. these typically do not have a Hidden Layer and cannot solve problems that are not 'linearly separable', such as XOR (the Hidden Layer of BackPropagation allows it to solve these problems). another popular type is called Kohonen or SOM. this type does not have a Hidden Layer and does not use supervised training. instead of recognizing patterns, it is used for classifying input data. then you have to figure out what the different classifications mean. wild! the SOM type is probably the NN that most closely models our own brain. another type is call Hopfield, which has the ability to memorize patterns. they all have the same basic concepts of Layers, Nodes, and Links ... but can be used to solve entirely different problems. the rest of this article uses the BackProp mechanism described above. i have yet to work with the other types ... but there is some source code that i ported to look at below
although i could ... i did not want to write my own BackProp neural network from scratch. there are already a couple C# implementations available and i just started with the simpler ones. the following list is in order of what i consider simplest to most complex. i've successfully used the 1st 2 with slight modifications. have yet to try the last two.
i think the results below will show NN goodness ... but there are some pain points. 1) getting the real world data into some meaningful form. in all likelihood you are going to have to massage the input data into an input array. this might involve numerous image processing or mathematical transforms. for me, this has mostly been trial and error. 2) configuring the neural network. you have to choose what size the layers should be, the learning rate, bias, momentum, error tolerance, etc... just a bunch of places a beginner can do something stupid. 3) training for optimal learning can take a long time (although running it is fast). i kept changing some setting and retraining it, and then testing it to see how it did. sometimes it would perform a little better ... and sometimes worse. right now it is definitely not intuitive for me as to what might changes make the results better
now that we've got some idea about Neural Networks ... it is time to apply it to a moderately difficult problem. XOR seems to be the 'hello world' of NNs. but why would i want to write alot of code to train my computer to perform a function that is built into my programming language? the 2nd favorite seems to be pattern recognition of the digits 0-9 (OCR, optical character recognition). this is better, but it is not everyday that i come across pictures of numbers that are perfectly represented in pixel form ... and need a computer program to recognize them. to up the realism a little, along with the difficulty ... i chose handwriting recognition. this will perform a much simplified version of the handwriting recognition that occurs on a Tablet PC.
the Tablet PC is a stroke-based recognizer. it uses the x,y coordinates as you write to determine what is being written. on top of that the English recognizer is word-based. it uses that stroke information to go against a Dictionary of words (see /tabletDic), and then returns the word that is the closest match. it can also return the next closest matches. alternately, the Chinese recognizer is character based, and recognizes individual written characters. NOTE you can force the English recognizer to recognize single characters using a Factoid or InputScope. finally, the Tablet PC recognizer is not trainable. it works for everybody as soon as you turn it on, and it does not get better as you continue working with it. the only way to improve recognition is to add words to the Dictionary or improve your handwriting. if somebody else borrows it, it will work equally well for them. this is opposed to Speech Recognition on the Tablet PCs. speech reco requires it to be trained to a particular person before usage; and the more you train speech reco the more accurate it will become.
there are minimal resources for doing custom based recognition for Tablet PCs
to be different than the Tablet PC, my recognizer will require training and be character based. granted ... i am going to sort of cheat, meaning i'm going to let the Tablet API do the grunt work. before recognition can even occur, the stroke information has to be obtained and characters have to be segmented. the Tablet PC API does this wonderfully. it collects the stroke information as x,y coordinates ... so i will just use that data it provides. it also has an object called the InkDivider, which can be used to break up ink into paragraphs, lines, and words. if you set the RecognizerContext RecognitionMode to Factoid.OneChar and Coerce, then it will divide the ink into strokes that make up individual characters. i'm really not interested in writing that code ... so will rely on the Tablet API for that info. but i will not use the Tablet PC to do the actual recognition of the strokes into a character string. my recognizer will use that stroke info to do its own recognition using a neural network.
attempted this 2 ways: OCR and Stroke-based. 1) the OCR method treated the characters as images, and then compared the pixel data from the images to determine a match. made this attempt just for experience. 2) Stroke-based worked entirely with the x,y coordinates of character strokes, and then compared that to previously trained stroke data. this attempt is more similar to what the actual Tablet PC does
my 1st attempt was to do OCR pattern recognition, much like this article. NOTE that the article does not provide the source code for the NN. although you can easily recreate that program using the NN source code that is linked above. basically that article took the character input as an image, and broke it into a grid with 10x10 cells. each cells value was obtained by summing up the pixel values ranging from 0 to 255 (black to white, with gray in between). then those values were normalized to fall between -1 and 1. you then use those values to train the NN.
the pic above shows an early version of it working. in that training session, it was only trained for three characters A, B, C. the pic shows that it matched all 3 correctly, but that happened rarely. even for just 3 characters, the error rate was about 50%. this was based on the character being drawn just a little different due to slant of writing, size, etc. if i had it recognize more than just 3 characters, then its error rate was much higher. so this was attempt was basically a complete failure. meaning OCR does not work for handwriting recognition. going off of the pixel data is not a good way to handle noise. OCR does still make sense for reading scanned documents that use consistent fonts.
the 2nd attempt worked much better. what i did was collect the stroke information as x,y coordinates (thus moving from a raster world to vector based). the Stroke class had a BezierPoints property that returned a smoothed curve of Points. the only problem with that collection was that it only had the most significant points. first, i took those points and did some stroke geometry. i compared each Point to the following Point and determined the length between them. i also determined the angle of the line between those two Points. so now i had a collection of line stroke segment lengths and the angle at which they were drawn. with that collection, i dumped that out to a wave form ... to see what it looked like visually.
the picture above shows me writing the letter A twice, then the letter B twice, and then letter C twice. right then, i knew that was significant, because the pattern was repeatable for a specific letter, and there was a high degree of variability between letters. i was skeptical though, for 2 reasons. 1st, because i came up with that algorithm by accident. i found a couple algorithms on the web for doing handwriting reco but either did not like them or could not see how to feed that input data into a neural net. 2nd, because i had tried to use the wave form data to do speech recognition for /noReco. for speech reco, i could not use the wave form, but doing a transform of the wave using an FFT into a spectrogram did allow me to do recognition. went ahead and converted the handwriting wave using FFT to a spectrogram but it did not seem to look repeatable or variable. and some single stroke letters like 1 and lower case 'L' did not have any spectrogram at all. i should have realized that before even attempting it ... but it was not obvious until i saw the picture :( that is interesting though, the wave form works for handwriting reco, but not for speech reco; and vice versa for the spectrogram form.
going back to the wave form, i chopped it up into columns. the graphic above does not show it, but the columns overlapped some, and there were more columns. for each column i summed all the y values within that range of x. in other words it was adding all the line segment angles for a time slice. i used 50 columns slices for no particular reason. this gave me an array of 50 numbers something like 1500 1300 1150 700 200 -300 -500 -200 100 .... then, i normalized those based off the maximum number to give an array like .98 .90 .85 .70 .20 -.30 -.50 -.20 .10 ... ASIDE this is about how far i got with the /noReco article. since i did not understand NN at that time i had to use the 'nearest neighbor' algorithm for doing speech reco. i could now go back and update that article to use an NN as well ... and it should get even better results :)
now back to the NN world. the array of 50 numbers became my values to the Input Layer of the Neural Net. so i had an Input Layer of 50 layers. if i was recognizing the 10 digits, then the Output Layer was 10 Nodes. and the Hidden Layer would be 30 Nodes ((50 + 10) / 2).
then i wrote the test application. the test app lets me enter in an input character (as stroke data) and what the output character should be (as a char string). to train it to do numbers i have to enter in all 10 numbers. then i can train the neural network to some degree of error tolerance. once trained, i can write in an InkPicture box. to do recognition, the InkDivider class splits it up into strokes and hands those back to me. i process those strokes the same as above, and then run them through the neural network. then i grab the best result from the output and display that next to the written character. the results can be seen below
recognizing 10 digits. accuracy is about 90%
shape/symbol reco (square, triangle, circle). NOTE this is not the proper way to do shape reco
some character reco from the 26 character set. it thought I was an L. accuracy is more like 80% for this larger set
recognizing the same character at different sizes (got to love vectors)
so its accuracy is about 85+% for a small character set. i'm pretty excited about this, because the full Tablet Recognizer is not perfect with individual characters either (it does much better with words). anybody that plays the MSN crossword puzzle will know this :) it is different than the full Recognizer in that it requires training and is character-based. it can be quickly trained for different character sets (digits, shapes, emoticons, letters, symbols, etc). it can also recognize characters at different sizes. the main limitation is that it is based on the direction the stroke is taking. so it does not recognize if i train it with an O counter clock wise and the have it try and recognize a clockwise O (to accomplish this, i could just train it with both versions of writing O). but there are some character sets that specify the starting point and direction ... such as Graffiti. and this algorithm would be excellent for doing Graffiti and should have something like 95% accuracy or better. can think of at least a couple ways to improve this algorithm as well.
this showed how to create a reasonably-accurate train-able character-based handwriting recognizer for the Tablet PC using a Neural Network. it worked out as good as i could have hoped for. the NN is able to perform much better than any procedural code that i could have written to perform the same task ... and that would require alot of code that i dont ever want to write. it is also highly adaptable so that i can quickly train it to recognize some character that it has never seen before ... again without me having to write any more code. hopefully this will nudge some people to start writing some more interesting Tablet PC applications as well. worked on this specific application for 2 days and took 1 day to write the article. touched my 1st neural network code about a week ago.
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now for my wish list. 1st) the Tablet PC group needs to provide a more complete Recognizer DLL sample. right now only a skeleton sample is included. a sample that was still basic but actually demonstrated some of the API would help the developer community alot. eventually, if we could get that available to managed developers and have some debug support ... that would be great too. anyways, i asked for that stuff from the /tabletReco article years ago. 2nd) how about some MS-backed AI libraries in the .NET Base Class Libraries. i'm talking System.AI.NeuralNet and System.AI.FuzzyLogic, etc... maybe that is already in the pipe for Longhorn? a microsoft.public. newsgroup would be great too. 3rd) we saw the Machine Learning vid on Channel9 and the MSDN Genetic Algorithm article ... now could we get some MS evangelists to start blogging about this stuff. my new motto is less ADO.NET ... and more AI.NET
not providing the source code for this application. it is explained in detail and links are provided to the relevant C# Neural Net libraries above.
i did port the C code from Neural Networks at your Fingertips to C#. they all work except for SOM. if somebody could figure that out ... then i would post the fix
no planned updates. if somebody finds the bug in the SOM source code sample above, then i will fix that
alot more AI to play with


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That would be my Aunt Linda, Mom, Pops and Cousin Eugene, probably about 1966 right after Pop's first tour with the Cav. I'm judging the date by the fact their all drinking Oly and the only time I can remember Pops drinking that was when he was stationed at Ft. Lewis. Uncle Ed and Aunt Linda must've drove up with Cousin Eugene to visit and maybe get in some hunting or fishing.
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Abahani Limited, Mohammedan SC, Gazi Tanks and Bangladesh Biman moved into the semi-finals of the Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League by defeating their respective rivals on Saturday.
Reigning champions Abahani defeated Victoria by 11 runs in the Premier Division Ewenty20 League at the Fatullah stadium.
Batting first, Abahani were all out for 135 runs in 20 overs with Nadif Chowdhury scoring 30 and Shahagir Hossain adding 16. Sharafullah scalped three wickets for 20 runs.
In reply, Amit Majumder hit a fine 54 for Victoria but all the other batsmen failed to make any significant contribution as they managed 124 for seven in the allotted overs. Ziaur Rahman picked up four wickets for 17 runs.
Dhaka Mohammedan beat Partex by nine runs at the BKSP. Sohrawardi Shuvo scored 37, Marshall Ayub added 29 and Rashedul Huq scored 25 as Mohammedan posted 136 for five after batting first. Mehrab Hossain Opee's 29, Wasiur Rahman Joy's 27 and Mushfiqur Rahim's 24 could not save Partex as they stopped on 127 for five.
Gazi Tanks defeated BKSP by 18 runs at the Fatullah stadium. Batting first, Gazi Tanks piled up 136 for three in 20 overs with Imrul Kayes scoring 38, Mithun Ali adding 31, Nayeem Islam contributing 28 and Mohammad Ashraful remaining not out on 30. Later, Nayeem Islam took three wickets for 15 runs as BKSP finished their 20 overs making 118 for nine. Shaikat Ali's 38 and Imamul Mustaqim's 28 were the other notable scorers.
Young Pegasus and Old DOHS ended up in a tie at the Mirpur stadium but at the end of the match Old DOHS were declared winners by one run in the one-over-per-side batting. Batting first, Young Pegasus scored 121 for seven with Bulbul Bashak scoring 38 and Rajesh chipping in with 23. Later, Fazle Rabbi of DOHS led the charge with 36 and Raju added 14 at No 10 to finish the match in a tie. DOHS had scored 121 for eight. Abul Bashar scalped two wickets for 19 runs. In the one-over batting, Old DOHS scored eight runs while Young Pegasus made seven.
Biman Bangladesh defeated CCS by one wicket in a competitive match at the Mirpur stadium. CCS batted first and scored 101 runs for seven in 20 overs with Uttam Sarker and Shuvo making 28 and 23 respectively. Nabil Samad grabbed four wickets for 11 runs. Later, pacer Shahadat Hossain, who had taken two wickets earlier, played a match-winning innings of 22 not out at No 10 to guide Biman to victory.
Surjo Tarun beat City Club by 11 runs at the BKSP. Two identical 33-run innings from Rajin Saleh and Anisur Rahman helped Surjo Tarun post 133 for five and they later restricted City Club to 122 to win the match.
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Shagor on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 1:05 am
shawon on Fri, 14th Aug 2009 7:38 pm
nice 1 ….but i like mash bowling style . go ahead mash ….he is my favouret criketer
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Shawn Carter aka JayZ is beginning his 4:44 Tour this Friday at the Anaheim Honda Center. JayZ claims to be a businessman using his instincts or psychic powers for his setlist. JayZ is married to Beyoncé and they are parents of 3 young children.
Beyoncé got her big break from a psychic, who handed the talent singer her connection towards fame and fortune with only one request in return. This was broken by Beyoncé voicing her racist views publicly. JayZ and Beyoncé had hired and fired psychic, Robin Zodiac for their push party thrown just before the birth of their twins too.
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