...Cheaper to Sew Clothes than Buy them at the Store?, but thought you’d like to know some more specific ways to save money at the fabric store. Wait to Buy Patterns Until They’re on Sale When patterns aren’t on sale, they easily cost upwards of $15. Sure, that might be worth your money if you’re going to reuse it over and over again, but I still can’t bring myself to pay full price for one. If you have the time to wait, several fabric stores have sales where patterns are less than $2 a piece — that’s when I like to stock up. Alternatively, you can find sewing patterns and tutorials on the Internet for a low cost, or even free, like at Pattern Playground. I’ve also found that online sewing tutorials are easier to follow than typical sewing patterns anyway, because they are usually accompanied by videos or step-by-step pictures. If you’ve never sewn anything before, I suggest that you start with online tutorials for this very reason. Use Coupons at the Register Another way to save money at the fabric store is to use coupons. Fabric stores often run ads that give you a percentage off your entire purchase price. Some fabric stores even have coupons that give you a large discount on a single cut of fabric. I make it a rule never to go to the fabric store without one of these fabric store coupons. It’s pretty easy to search for coupons on the Internet and then print them out before you go. Jo-Ann Fabric runs promotions like this all the time. Buy Seasonal Fabric Most fabric...
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...Patchwork and appliqué are very ancient techniques and sometimes referred to as one. The only difference between them is that patchwork or piecework is the process of seaming small pieces of fabric in to a larger whole, while appliqué is the process of sewing smaller pieces of fabric onto a larger background fabric. It is a technique of forming a single pattern with different pieces of cloth. Pieces of fabric are applied on top of another for decorative or functional purposes. 1.1 History Appliqué is an ancient technique of creating beautiful and decorative items with different pieces of cloth. Nomadic people of the desert have long pieced together their tents and even decorated them with elaborate appliqué. Festive patchwork textiles created for special occasions are found in many places throughout India. Pieced and appliquéd household items are made by women for dowries. These objects include decorative bags, pillows and sitting mats. Appliqué played a part in religious textiles as well. It has long been used to make decorative clothing, because most clothing is used until it is worn out and then again reused to create beautiful patterns out of the worn fabric. This serves both economic and decorative purposes. Small pieces of fabric are cut and joined side by side to make a large piece of fabric or for repairing a damaged fabric. The craft seems to have been prevalent all over India. “ In all periods there are to be found in pieced quilts both unique and conventional designs; within...
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...Renaissance and Baroque styles and is a good example of the transition into more romantic paintings. The composition of this piece is well balanced. Although the subjects are cropped, they are cropped on both the right and the left side, making the painting horizontally balanced. This also gives an effect to the viewer that there is more depth to what is shown; giving the feeling that the viewer is almost in the battle with them. These cropped subjects nicely frame the triangular composition of the people fighting in the middle who are piled on top of each other. The triangle’s base begins with figures on the floor and rises to a point with other figures standing so the viewer can see the actions of every character. Use of geometric patterns are also used in the lighting to lead the eye around the composition. This is seen in an upside down triangle. Our eyes first catch attention in the foreground, where there is a tenebristic spotlight effect. They then move to the next most lit spot to the right in the mid-ground, and then to the left. This lighting moves the viewer’s eyes through the depths of the picture plane and also reveals systematically what is happening in this painting. From this movement, you can see that women are placed into the battle. As your eye moves in the directed places, you see the women being taken by the centaurs, relaying what the battle is possibly about. Many of the subject’s arms are raised to create movement as well as action. The arms direct our...
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...a video can be viewed as a series of images, which contains a lot of various concepts. Even though the annotation for the individual image frame is in effect, any concept in the image frames still cannot represent the complete video. The aim of the paper is to allow users to obtain their desired videos by submitting her/his interested video clips, without considering the identification of the query terms and applying an efficient indexing technique for searching videos present in large multimedia repositories. Keywords Video data mining, multimedia repository, index table, query clip. 1. INTRODUCTION Data mining is the process of posing various queries and extracting useful and often previously unknown and unexpected information, patterns, and trends from large quantities of data, generally stored in databases[1]. These data could be accumulated over a long period of time or they could be large data sets accumulated simultaneously from heterogeneous sources. Video mining is considered as an extension of still image mining by including mining of temporal image sequences. However, the video data in the general case represent the multimedia already since they include – besides the image sequence – audio data and textual annotations. The searching of video data to find the best matching video clip in content to the desired clip of the user is a very challenging task[4]. We approach...
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...chance to get a high grade. An argumentative essay is organized according to one of these five patterns: Pro-Con pattern, Con-Pro pattern, 3-Con pattern, Claim / Counterclaim pattern or Alternating pattern. PRO-CON pattern | | | In this simple pattern for an argumentative essay, you discuss two PRO points and one CON point. Recommended for short school essays on any topic. This pattern contains five paragraphs: introduction, conclusion, and three paragraphs, one for each PRO or CON point. | CON-PRO pattern | | | This pattern for an argumentative essay is very similar to the previous one, but the CON point comes first. Recommended for short school essays on any topic. The pattern contains five paragraphs: introduction, conclusion, and three paragraphs, one for each PRO or CON point. | 3-CON pattern | | | In this pattern for an argumentative essay you don’t explicitly present any PRO point, but instead refute three CON points. Recommended for short school essays on any topic. The pattern contains five paragraphs: introduction, conclusion, and three paragraphs, one for each CON point. | Claim / Counterclaim pattern | | | This pattern for an argumentative essay is more advanced than the previous three, and allows for a more complete development of your argumentation. Recommended for advanced school and college essays on any topic. The pattern contains introduction,...
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...Critical Thinking Notes for Quiz 1)Collection of Information Skill and defination | Why important | How | Question to ask | a) Identifying assumption: Recognizing when something is taken for granted or presented as fact without supporting evidence (e.g., you might assume a woman on a maternity unit has just had a baby) | By identifying assumptions, you begin to apply logic to the situation and avoid jumping to conclusions and making errors in judgment. | To identify assumptions, make sure that you have a complete picture of what's going on with the patient | What's being taken for granted here?” and “How do I know that I've got the facts right?” | b)Assessing systematically and comprehensively: Using an organized, systematic approach that enhances your ability to discover all the information needed to fully understand a person's health status (e.g., What are the actual and potential problems? What needs aren't being met? What are the person's strengths and resources?) | Having an organized approach to assessment prevents you from forgetting something Use both subjective and objective data | You must decide the purpose of your assessment and use an approach that gets the information needed to achieve your purpose. For example, medical assessments focus on identifying diseases or organ or system problems, rather than problems with human responses or activities of daily living | What infor I Need to know in order to treat this person?What would be my approach for this...
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... Once we have molecular nanotechnology based manufacturing, can produce solar panels extremely ineffictively, basically at the costs of raw materials. Could eventually be as inexpensive as a penny per square meter. Could put solar panels everywhere, on buildings, majority of human surfaces. Could put solar satellite into space and beam to earth via microwave. Each unit could provide billions of watts of electricity. Medicine 213 New ECG analysis for long-term unobtrusive monitoring, detect early warning signs of heart disease. AI programs to do pattern recognition and intelligent data mining in development of new drug therapies. Intelligent datamining tools to find new ways to distupt metabolisms of pathogens. CPOE checks for every order for possible allergies in a patient, drug interactions, duplications, drug restrictions, guidelines, ect. Patter recognition applied to protein pattern patterns can better detect ovarian cancer. Augmentations 197 Billions or trillions of nanobots can be put into the bloodstreem. Use to scan the human brain to reverse engineer it. Blood...
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...Name Instructor Date Organizational patterns in speech There are four types of organizational patterns they include topical, chronological, and partial as well as cause and effect patterns. The topical pattern is used to stress natural divisions or categories in a topic. It gives out the greatest freedom to a structure. Such a speech is topically organized with main points well articulated in a more randomly manner by sub-topics. The chronological pattern is used to describe a series of developments in time or a set of actions occurring sequentially the main points are oriented towards time. Spatial pattern is used to emphasize physical arrangements. The main points orients towards space or a directional pattern. The cause-effect pattern is used to demonstrate a topic in terms of its underlying cause or effects. The paper focuses on the organizational pattern best suited to a speech given in teenage pregnancy. The best organization pattern for this kind of speech is the causal division that organizes a speech from the cause to effect or effect to cause. The pattern of speech may be used to persuade the teenagers not to indulge in sex before marriage sex being the cause and pregnancy the effect. Some action needs to be taken to solve teenage pregnancy problem. The first point is the cause of teenage pregnancy, and the effect is sex handles teenage pregnancy. The solution is educating the teens on the importance of abstinence. Another cause is curiosity where teenagers want...
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...to information. We restore classic cars so he finds out the cost of the parts that we need. He is always on the internet to see the top dollar amount that we could get from restoring certain models. He likes to ask a lot of questions because he likes details, unlike myself. Yet we work well together with this pattern. * * Technical Reasoning: He uses first * I love my fiancees Technical Reasoning. There's not much that he can't fix or operate. He uses his Technical Reasoning when he works on cars, fixes the plumbing, when building furniture, and any fabricating that may be needed. His interest lies in taking things apart and putting them back together just to see how something works. Anything that is broke he can fix, this is something that gives him pleasure. * * Confluence: He uses as needed * My fiancee is willing to take more risks than I am. I like things simple and undisturbed. By his actions, he encourages me to take risks. He bought a big screen T.V. that I didn't think we could afford. When I was afraid to go back to school, he didn't push me, he just gave me a nudge. Now he is trying to talk me into buying a house. This is where our patterns conflict. When you take risks you never know what the...
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...CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL END OF THIRD TERM EXAMINATION SECTION A (50 MARKS) 1) How loud or soft a music is termed ………………………….. a. Dynamic b. Rhythm c. pitch 2. Using alphabet to create patterns by arranging and pasting is called …………………………….. a. letter colle b. frottage c. drawing 3. The combination of long and short sounds in music is called…………………….. a. dynamics b. rhythm c. pitch 4. In music how high or low the music is termed ………………………………. a. dynamics b. rhythm c. pitch 5. In dancing when someone lift the arm high and wave in the air it can be referred to as ….............. a. instruments b. ensemble c. gesture 6. A design or a pattern used as a decoration is called ………………………………… a. appliqué b. pattern c. motif 7. A type of needle work in which small pieces of fabric are sewn or stuck in a pattern onto a larger piece is ……………………………….. a. appliqué b. pattern c. motif 8. ………………………………… is the expression of feelings and ideas using tools like pencil, crayon, and charcoal on a flat surface. a. Drawing b. Frottage c. Letter colle 9. A way in which something such as lines, shapes, colours are arranged to form a design is called ……………………………………….. a. colouring b. drawing c. pattern making 10. Rubbing the surface of paper against a rough surface using pencil, crayon or charcoal is called ………………………………………… a. letter colle b. frottage c. copying 11. Which of these is used for measuring? a. needle b...
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...Part A Draw a CLD to explain the fish regeneration dynamics of ‘Lakeland Reserve’ based on the initial 500 fish in the Reserve area, assuming there is no fishing or other source of predation. Sketch a BOT graph as a reference mode that shows the pattern of change of the fish population over the 40 year period. Briefly explain the dynamics that your CLD reveals, any archetypal patterns of behaviour, and any other insights your initial analysis demonstrates. (This task has similar requirements to Assignment 1). BOT The BOT demonstrates the patterns of behaviour the fish population at ‘Lakeland Reserve’ over 40 years Year FISH POPULATION PATTERN OF BEHAVIOUR OF FISH POPULATION 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 40 Figure 1 As shown in Figure 1, at the beginning (t=0) there are only 500 fishes. Hence, more fishes are added to the reserve and the fish population in the reserve keeps growing. The rate at which fishes are added is at an accelerating rate. However, when the reserve reaches its maximum capacity at 4000 fishes, the fish population starts to decline at a diminishing rate. CLD The CLD visualizes the interrelated variables in terms of the behaviour of fish population at ‘Lakeland Reserve’ during this period Figure 2 Figure 2, the casual loop diagram including three loops (two reinforcing loops and one balancing loop), demonstrates the fish regeneration dynamics of ‘Lakeland Reserve’ based on the initial 500 fishes in the Reserve...
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...Similarity based Analysis of Networks of Ultra Low Resolution Sensors Relevance: Pervasive computing, temporal analysis to discover behaviour Method: MDS, Co-occurrence, HMMs, Agglomerative Clustering, Similarity Analysis Organization: MERL Published: July 2006, Pattern Recognition 39(10) Special Issue on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition Summary: Unsupervised discovery of structure from activations of very low resolution ambient sensors. Methods for discovering location geometry from movement patterns and behavior in an elevator scheduling scenario The context of this work is ambient sensing with a large number of simple sensors (1 bit per second giving on-off info). Two tasks are addressed. Discovering location geometry from patterns of sensor activations. And clustering activation sequences. For the former, a similarity metric is devised that measures the expected time of activation of one sensor after another has been activated, on the assumption that the two activations are resulting from movement. The time is used as a measure of distance between the sensors, and MDS is used to arrive at a geometric distribution. In the second part, the observation sequences are clustered by training HMMs for each sequence, and using agglomerative clustering. Having selected an appropriate number of clusters (chosen by the domain expert) the clusters can be used to train new HMM models. The straightforward mapping of the cluster HMMs is to a composite HMM, where each branch of...
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...of wallpaper manufacturers as these manufacturers must not only produce a good that is highly valued but is also offered at a reasonable cost. When wallpaper pattern designs become obsolete, markdowns are necessary to help get rid of this old inventory. These markdowns are a key factor in the recent trend of decreasing net income. Since Chabot has made the decision to reimburse retailers for markdowns, Chabot’s total profit margin is reduced relative to the markdown reimbursement costs. Markdown costs have nearly tripled since 2006 and show no sign of slowing down because every four months a new pattern is introduced which creates less demand for the older patterns. The markdowns can be traced back to poor forecasting. Chabot’s forecasting is causing them to build up a very undesirable level of obsolete inventory. This increasing number of obsolete inventory also has a negative effect on inventory turnover. Retailers are very concerned with this turnover rate because it carries a heavy cost on inventory holding. Retailers are threatening to remove Chabot’s products from their shelves in order to make space for products with higher turnover rates which will help minimize inventory costs for the retailers. Keeping up with demand is another issue for Chabot. Chabot is unable to keep a steady supply of its successful patterns which is unacceptable to loyal...
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...Before the Beginning: A Look at Pre-Amberverse Cosmology "...And the Queen of Kashfa sees with the Eye of the Serpent." "I don't know that she sees with it," I said. "She's still recovering from the operation. But that's an interesting thought. If she could see with it, what might she behold?" "The clear, cold lines of eternity, I daresay. Beneath all Shadow. No mortal could bear it for long." Suhuy & Merlin, Prince Of Chaos Long ago, before even Chaos reigned, there dwelt a race of Ancients. How these creatures came into being is unknown, perhaps even by them. Some speculate they spontaneously formed, others would have one believe a greater power yet created them. Whatever the truth of the matter, they existed before all that is now known. The Ancients set about the task of creating a place for themselves to dwell. They created a fabric of existence, a latticework of power which defined the Universe and gave a meaning to space and time. They used these "Pathways" like a giant web, travelling along it and creating homes (referred to now as Shadows) upon the structure. Within this universal framework they would dwell, war, and finally they would die. No one can name the reason for their wars. Perhaps there was none, if there ever is such a thing. At first they fought with their creations, creatures of lesser power who were products of their works. They bound these creatures, whom some would call Gods, into the latticework and created Artifacts of Power to draw...
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...February Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs “Connect the Dots” to Identify New Business Opportunities by Robert A. Baron* Executive Overview How do entrepreneurs identify opportunities for new business ventures? One possibility, suggested by research on human cognition, is that they do so by using cognitive frameworks they have acquired through experience to perceive connections between seemingly unrelated events or trends in the external world. In other words, they use cognitive frameworks they possess to “connect the dots” between changes in technology, demographics, markets, government policies, and other factors. The patterns they then perceive in these events or trends suggest ideas for new products or services—ideas that can potentially serve as the basis for new ventures. This pattern recognition perspective on opportunity identification is useful in several respects. First, it helps integrate into one basic framework three factors that have been found to play an important role in opportunity recognition: engaging in an active search for opportunities; alertness to them; and prior knowledge of an industry or market. In addition, it also helps explain interrelations between these factors (e.g., the fact that active search may not be required when alertness is very high). Second, a pattern recognition perspective helps explain why some persons, but not others, identify specific opportunities. Third, a pattern recognition framework suggests...
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