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Play the Greens With the Blues
Calling all St. Louis golfers and hockey fans! Hopefully your recent brush with some amazing elite golfers has gotten you ready to trade in your hockey sticks for a nine iron, because the second annual St. Louis Blues 14 Fund Golf Classic is coming soon.
On Monday, October 6, you and three friends can join two Blues executives, coaches, alumni and current players for a round of golf. The cost ($2,000) is pretty steep, but the $500 per player fee goes towards the Blues 14 Fund, which helps improve the health and wellness of youth in the St. Louis area. The tournament is being held at Meadowbrook Country Club.
For more information about playing in the tourney alongside your favorite Blues players, click here or call 314.622.2524.
If you decide that your funds aren't sufficient enough to actually play with the Blues, here are a few other (cheaper) ways to combine Blues Hockey with your golf game.
- This Blues Hockey Stick Putter will have you crushing the ball Happy Gilmore-style.
- Click here to buy a set of St. Louis sports-themed golf balls. Just make sure you use the Rams one when you're hitting a tricky shot over a water hazard.
- If you sweat like a hockey player - there's no mistaking that smell - try out this St. Louis Blues golf towel.
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I just moved back to The Lou from CoMo and I'd love to hear from you. Shoot me an idea/comment/bored rambling at audrey@toastedrav.com.I am also an expert at the Chicken Dance, and I am willing to give lessons for a small fee.
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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.