Friday, August 31, 2012

Bing adds search for Facebook?s 300 million new daily photos

Facebook users are adding a stunning 300 million new photos each and every day. So Bing just added a new way to search and browse your friends? photos ? without all the clutter of status updates and friend requests.

The new feature is part of Bing?s ongoing evolution to make search more visual. Friends? photos already show up in search sidebars when relevant, but now interested users can go straight to bing.com/friendsphotos to browse and search all their Facebook friends? images.

I tried it, and it?s actually better at browsing than searching, but that could be your friends? fault, not Bing?s. Many Facebook users upload images with little or no metadata, making them difficult to index for search. (Perhaps Bing could license Google?s newest technology for knowing what pictures and video contain.)

Connect Bing to Facebook, and your friends? photos show up in a Pinterest-like stream:

Search did not work well for me ? repeated attempts with ?dog,? ?baby,? and ?beach,? among others, brought up no results. So either I am the biggest loser in the world with no friends, or my friends don?t tag their photos very well:

What I did find very useful was friend search, which allowed me to view each friend?s photos in a stream, and the default stream of all my friends? pictures, which is a great way to get visually updated in a hurry on where your friends are and what they?re doing.

But image search? Not a winner yet.

Image credits: Bing

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

World Chefs-Trotter marks milestone by closing restaurant

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charlie Trotter will mark the 25th anniversary of his Chicago restaurant on Friday by closing its doors permanently so he can pursue a master's degree in philosophy.

Charlie Trotter's has won every major U.S. culinary award for its innovative American cuisine, while its wine program with over 1,800 selections from around the world has garnered equal acclaim.

The 52-year-old Chicago native spoke to Reuters about the current dining scene, his academic future and his last dinner at his restaurant.

Q: Has it been tough to close the restaurant?

A: "The hard part is settling your accounts, your affairs and in our case, (whether on) selling our wine cellar. Once we are closed, I will keep a small staff on hand. Of course, I will miss the interaction with the clients. I've been fortunate that the restaurant is almost like the old-style European salons that helped me introduce people to each other whom otherwise would have never met had they not been on the same night at the restaurant."

Q: Will you open another restaurant after your academic hiatus?

A: "I don't know what am I going to do. I would never say never to the restaurant business. It's in my blood. I'm taking a break now and I'll determine whether I'd come back to the restaurant world in one form or another."

Q: How has the industry changed over the past 25 years?

A: "Now people go out so much more. I remember in those early days, we had to explain every single dish. Now people are so much more informed about food just because of where we've come as a food culture. It probably started with the PBS (public television) food series with Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and some of the others, then you have the Food Network, then you have the shows on A&E (Channel) and the Travel Channel and things like that. People just dine out more. They dine out three to four nights a week. They don't have time to cook at home like they used to."

Q: What are you serving at the restaurant's last dinner?

A: "Our last dinner will the antithesis of what we have been doing the last 25 years, which is ?Casual Charlie' night. We are going to clear all the furniture out of the restaurant. We are going to have food stations, Philly cheese steak pizzas and dishes we are cooking up which have never existed. It's going to be a big party with 200 people, a lot of chefs and friends of the restaurant. We are going to do the opposite of what we have done that's very different from the reputation of the restaurant."

Q: You have inspired a lot of chefs. Who are your culinary inspirations?

A: "There is Fredy Girardet (famed Swiss chef). He actually cooked here for our 15th anniversary. That's only the second time he cooked in America. He is the person who cooks in my style - being in the moment, Miles-Davis-like. There was also Fernand Point (a master French chef who died in 1955). He epitomized what is generosity in cuisine and what running a restaurant is all about."

Q: What is your philosophy on food?

A: "Food is a sensual experience that we have four, five times a day. It's the one thing that brings us around the table, whether it's a family getting together for dinner, whether it's a romantic moment."

RECIPE

Braised Leek Soup with Sauteed Oyster Mushrooms (Serves 4)

2 large leeks (white part and 2 inches of the greens)

5 cups chicken stock or vegetable stock

2 sprigs rosemary

4 tablespoons unsalted butter

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 shallots, minced

1-1/2 cups oyster mushrooms, cleaned

4 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives

To prepare the soup:

1. Cut each leek in half lengthwise and place in a shallow pan with the stock and the rosemary. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 25 minutes, or until the leeks are tender.

2. Remove and discard the rosemary. Remove the leeks and chop into bite-sized pieces.

3. Puree two-thirds of the leeks, all of the stock, and half of the butter until smooth. Cover the soup in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, or until warm.

4. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Keep warm. Reserve the remaining leeks for garnish.

To prepare the mushrooms:

1. Sweat the shallot in the remaining butter in a medium saut? pan over medium heat for 3-4 minutes, or until translucent.

2. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5-7 minutes, or until tender. season to taste with salt and pepper.

3. Spoon some of the mushrooms into the center of each bowl and top with the remaining leeks.

4. Ladle the soup into the bowls and drizzle with the olive oil. Sprinkle the chives around the bowl and top with freshly ground black pepper.

(Reporting by Richard Leong)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/world-chefs-trotter-marks-milestone-closing-restaurant-090205289.html

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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  • Notre Dame's Man Cave QB, Steve Herring, breaks down the 2012 season opener with the Huffington Post's Jordan Schultz, former Sports Illustrated CFB writer John Walters & recent ND quarterback Matt Mulvey (09-12). Inside analysis, insight, projections & more.

  • Deborah Shane welcomes career pro's and authors Emily Bennington and Corey Harlock back to discuss using social media for job search and career advancement and how job boards are now integrating social media into their platforms.

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  • The Willie Lawson Show will be broadcasting LIVE from the Republican National Convention. Tune in to get on the floor reports from what will prove to be an interesting event.

  • EGH Media visited Chillingham Castle, reputedly one of Europe?s most haunted locations. The guys teamed up with head ghost tour guide Graham Burney and produced a show full of psychic work, ghost stories and history all rolled into one.

  • Virginia may be for lovers but what about for anglers? Join the PointClickFish.com team live on location in Virginia Beach for the 2012 Virginia Beach Billfish Tournament! Our team will interview Captains, fans, vendors and anglers.

  • Join Lifestyle Expert Cameron Washington as he talks live on air with national and international music sensation Aaron Camper and plays his new single " Madness". Plus, a few surprise guests, and "Hot Topics"

  • Vinny Bond speaks with Redd Velvet about her career and Music Heals Memphis Inc, her charitable health & social service program. JT Lauritsen speaks from Norway about his life and music. Matthew Davidson returns with his debut EP "Step UP" and Blues411 Report

  • Are you tired of facing the piles of clutter in the office and at home? Have you thought about living the simple life? Join me and my guest Valerie Anderson, MSW as we discuss ways to clear the clutter and live a life of simplicity.

  • The Drew Show welcomes from America's Got Talent Singer Bria Kelly. Bria was selected out of Millions on YouTube to be a contestant on this season of America's Got Talent!

  • Buffalo welcomes Oscar winning actor, director, writer and musician Billy Bob Thornton to discuss movies, music an life. We also welcome members of the band Royal Southern Brotherhood.

  • Iconic filmmaker Spike Lee will be joining us this week on PDC Live!! to discuss his latest film Red Hook Summer, a venture back to the universe he created originally in Do The Right Thing.

  • We will have a couple of great guests and we give a heavy dose of college football and NFL talk. This will be our first NFL fantasy draft show and we plan to have a lot of people listening.

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    Friday, August 24, 2012

    Folsom performing arts facility gets new name | Village Life

    Three stages at Folsom Lake College will be renamed the Harris Center for the Arts in honor of retiring chancellor Brice W. Harris. Courtesy photo

    Three stages at Folsom Lake College will be renamed the Harris Center for the Arts in honor of retiring chancellor Brice W. Harris. Courtesy photo

    The Los Rios Community College District Board of Trustees has named the regional fine and performing arts facility at Folsom Lake College the Harris Center for the Arts in honor of retiring chancellor Brice W. Harris.

    The honor was formally announced Wednesday night at a retirement reception for Dr. Harris attended by more than 400 community, business, government and education leaders and elected officials.

    ?We could think of no better way to honor Brice?s exceptional 16-year tenure as our chancellor,? said Los Rios Board President Ruth Scribner. ?We wouldn?t even have a regional arts center if it wasn?t for Brice?s original vision. He was the first to see that the Folsom/El Dorado areas were woefully lacking in performing arts venues and led the district in creating a superior facility capable of showcasing not only student work but national and international touring companies as well.?

    Harris has been a life-long supporter of the arts and has served on numerous art boards including the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Crocker Art Museum. He began his educational career nearly 40 years ago as a theater arts professor.

    ?This is without doubt the biggest honor of my life,? said Harris. ?These past 16 years have given me the opportunity to work with the most amazing people in a truly wonderful district and I can?t say how much it means to have this beautiful arts facility named in my honor.?It is overwhelming.?

    The facility, which has been called Three Stages, will transition to the new name over the coming months.

    Harris was just recently named CEO of the Year for the Pacific Region by the national Association of Community College Trustees.??The award will be given at the national?conference in Boston in October. At that time, one of the five regional award recipients will be named National CEO of the Year.

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    Tuesday, August 21, 2012

    Rental cars | Is step 1 in a lease of or buy decision

    It saves you time and Frustration? but more importantly, it helps to avoid the credit requests that can lower your FICO credit scores up to 12 points per request.

    Want you approved under the best possible conditions to get when you buy a car, credit lenders standards it is important you know a car before you apply for credit above all if you bankruptcy?.

    Step 1 in a lease ? buy or decision is the determination of a lenders credit standards.

    You first be asked whether these people with a bankruptcy are suitable. You must, in advance, that you have filed bankruptcy. We have to the fact that some traders work not only with people who have filed bankruptcy. Some lenders will be lease only to people with a bankruptcy. Others provide only purchase financing. Ask dear Finance Director at dealership you draw the manufacturer to structure, what.

    And here is a quick tip for you: If your insolvency your lending site-then, in the eyes of the lender pulls does not appear on the credit report you are not in bankruptcy.

    The only lenders that I take into consideration are:

    -First choice: captive lenders (automobile)

    -Zweite choice: Banks (not financial companies)

    -Dritte choice: Savings banks

    Ninety-nine percent of the cars Ive leased over the years have been with captive lenders. Only one was leased by a bank.

    I had that particular thing from a conversation was with Amy, the financial manager at the local Land Rover dealer here in Indianapolis. I told her I was open for its financing recommendations, but I financing by the car manufacturer preferred.

    I told her my current FICO scores. I have a loan and said to go her.

    The next day I signed a leasing agreement with the local bank. Open for their advice Division literally me hundreds of dollars per month on the car.

    It seems that most car dealers to call banks all their funding sources. If some banks are in reality, some are credit unions, and most are sub prime finance companies.

    Here is a list with some of the most commonly used sub prime car finance companies:

    1. HSBC Auto

    2. Capital a

    3. AmeriCredit

    4. WFS financial

    Want the sub prime finance companies-share if you have exhausted all other options. Your last resort should be sub prime lenders.

    And savings banks only use if it all three national reporting credit bureaus reports. How to find out, if a Credit Union reports to all three credit reporting agencies?

    Questions of the Manager to the Credit Union, if they report. The three worst luxury captive lenders to lease or purchase from after bankruptcy are:

    1. BMW

    2. Mercedes

    3. Porsche

    The three worst established captivity are lenders:

    1. Honda

    2. KIA/Subaru

    3. Toyota

    For example, if one of the above happens, be the largest retailer in your area, you may can special offers, a smaller retailer who can not.

    Of course also things change constantly with captive auto lenders. You change their credit standards on a whim, to achieve their own financial goals. OK, so you made your research and restrict your choice to one or two car manufacturers.

    Step 2 in a lease of or buy decision is to purchase your FICO credit scores.

    If you enter notes with your FICO a dealer, the dealer will know youre better informed consumers and can not be invoked. Only you know that the FICO credit scores car dealers use are a little different than what we see as a consumer. The notes, check the dealer called FICO auto industry of option scores. The good news? This FICO scores may be higher than your normal FICO scores If you paid all previous car loans as agreed.

    Some car dealers have told me that if your FICO scores are higher than the scores of dealers reviews ? you can even use your scores will find a better deal.

    You can buy your scores by myFICO.com.

    Step 3 is to interview the remaining car dealers at a deeper level.

    -What is your minimum credit score to get request approved?

    -Requires is what credit score to get the best interest rate?

    -Your lenders prefer, offers leasing or purchase to finance to a bankrupt debtor?

    -Bestehen what incentives, to lease or to buy now?

    Evaluate your opportunities and incentives. Keep in mind that you buy the financing. In other words, the most important factor is the willingness of lenders loan money.

    Personally, I see the leasing to buy decision in three ways:

    1. If you restore recently from bankruptcy are, is the only one which ranks what, if you can get approved with an interest rate, you can afford by a lender, reported on all three national credit bureaus reporting. So you should only lenders that bankruptcy are friendly.

    2. Once your credit scores start to increase, you can start, select cars on the basis of which credit reporting agency of the lender uses to help determine whether you qualify. Of course you should choose the lender, that your highest FICO credit score used by the lending decide.

    3. If your scores are high enough? or two years have passed after your bankruptcy? or your bankruptcy is used not on the credit report of the creditor, then select can almost any car you like. But sure you still do your research and based on your credit scores you can interest to compare conditions and incentives.

    Source: http://www.culturedefense.org/is-step-1-in-a-lease-of-or-buy-decision.html

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    Saturday, August 18, 2012

    US Weather News - Gordon Becomes A Hurricane; Helene Close To Mexico

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    Thursday, August 16, 2012

    Gingrich: Reid, Pelosi not living up to standard they set for Romney [VIDEO]

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of demonstrating a ?level of hypocrisy? that the GOP ?can?t match? with their attempts to paint the Republicans as the political party of the rich.

    TheDC asked Gingrich how he responds when he hears Democratic leaders like Reid and Pelosi say the Republicans only care about the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

    ?First of all, this is a politics that goes all the way back to William Jennings Bryan. It is in the genetic code of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. They say it every four years and have forever. It is ironic when a Nancy Pelosi who is a multimillionaire says it. It?s a little bit like John Kerry saying it,? Gingrich told The Daily Caller in a video interview.

    ?They are geniuses at a level of hypocrisy which Republicans can?t match because we get ashamed. I mean, if you just watch Harry Reid in the last week, the attacks he made on Romney in this last week are pure fabrication. He has no proof, he has no witnesses.?

    RELATED: Pelosi: If you?re making ?over $250,000, you don?t get the pie sweetened for you? [VIDEO]?

    Reid claimed Romney has not paid taxes for 10 years but would not reveal his source.

    ?He just went to the floor of the Senate and lied but because he?s a professional Democrat, lying is considered a legitimate behavior and so he has no lost energy,? Gingrich said.

    ?Republicans flinch when they have to lie like that because they have some residual belief that it?s bad. Guys like Harry Reid just think it?s the price of doing business.?

    RELATED: Valerie Jarrett questioned on Reid?s Romney tax attack [VIDEO]

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called on Romney to release additional years of his tax returns.

    ?Remember, Pelosi?s released zero years, Reid has released zero years, so they?re setting a standard neither of them lives up to. My prediction is if Romney does release 10 more years, that?ll be inadequate and they?ll then say where?s the rest? Why isn?t he releasing his tax return when he was 17? They have found a gimmick that allows them to make a case that they?ll keep making,? Gingrich said.

    ?Romney?s got to make a bigger case which is what you really care about is your tax return and under Barack Obama, you?ve earned less, you?ve kept less, you?ve had less and wouldn?t you like to have a better tax return with a higher income with an economy that?s growing??

    Pelosi said she would release her tax returns only when she runs for president.

    ?They?re automatically held to a different standard because they?re Democrats. My point would be what Romney wants to have is an argument about your taxes, not his taxes and what they want to have an argument about is his taxes, not your taxes,? Gingrich told TheDC.

    ?They [the Obama campaign] can?t win if the issue is, ?What has happened to you personally and can you afford four more years like this?? I mean, they could get beaten as bad Jimmy Carter was beaten by Ronald Reagan if that?s the issue. They can win if the issue?s Mitt Romney.?

    Watch TheDC?s full interview with Gingrich:

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    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gingrich-reid-pelosi-not-living-standard-set-romney-171602471.html

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    Thursday, August 2, 2012

    VAULTS AND BARS

    The women's gymnastics team final is about to begin, with the Americans and the Russians the two favorites.

    The Americans are looking for their first Olympic team gold since 1996 in Atlanta, while the Russians haven't won gold since 1992.

    Look for the U.S. to jump out to an early lead. Gabby Dougals and friends start on the vault, their strongest event. Every U.S. gymnast can execute the Amanar vault, which carries a high degree of difficulty.

    The Russians only have two gymnasts who can do that.

    Still the Russians excel on the uneven bars and have a great chance to make up ground later in the competition.

    ?Jon Krawczynski ? Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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    Wednesday, August 1, 2012

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