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I’ve been around the New York restaurant scene for more than 30 years and few names come up with as much respect and affection as that of Floyd Cardoz. I couldn’t believe I never met him until I went to North End Grill a few days ago to celebrate the birthday of a great friend. It was a girl’s lunch out — white wine (one from Greece and another from Austria), a torchon of foie gras with rhubarb-tangerine preserve and grilled brioche; soft-scrambled eggs with bacon and ramps, a salad of escarole, endive and radicchio tossed with blood oranges and Marcona almonds, linguine with flaked halibut, fava leaves and citrus gremolata. There were outstanding “Thrice-Fried Spiced Fries” peppered with mango powder, paprika and cumin, and, for dessert, an awesome butterscotch pot de crème with chocolate streusel and “single Maltmallows” (homemade marshmallows perfumed with scotch), and a sexy rendition of chocolate mousse coupled with candied macadamia nuts and black currant sorbet.

So why am I telling you all this, other than to make your mouth water? It’s because the menu tells the story of a chef’s journey — from the bold, iconic, three-star, Indian-inspired Tabla, to the new American-style grill recently opened in New York’s Financial District, by Chef Cardoz and Danny Meyer. It isn’t an easy act to follow — your own — and even harder when you know all eyes are upon you: Those of the most jaded New Yorkers, and maybe more importantly, those of your disciples Windows 7 serial key, including some of the city’s bold name chefs including Ben Pollinger from Oceana and Dan Kluger of abckitchen. This is a chef who is “totally present” to his new surroundings and his new-style cuisine: Nary a nod to the pantry he left behind except, perhaps McAfee Product Key, for that dusting of mango powder on those addictive fries.

I admire this move. It is risky and rewarding. It is not yet perfect but that’s the magic of all of Danny Meyer’s enterprises (Danny is the owner of Union Square Hospitality Group and the creator of Gramercy Tavern, Maialino, Blue Smoke, Union Square Café, and Shake Shack, just to name a few). He and his chefs “work it” and work it until whatever it is they’re doing becomes a “prime number” in the infinite realm of experiential dining.

Many chefs, like many artists, apply their creativity to a singular modality (a particular cuisine) that comes to define them. But today Windows 7 serial key, the emphasis is on the craft of being a chef, allowing for expansion beyond one’s own culture or culinary training.

Floyd Cardoz began his life in India and graduated in biochemistry. He understands why food does what it does. He has worked in the best kitchens in India and Switzerland and spent five years in the celebrated kitchen of Gray Kunz’s Lespinasse. Whether Floyd’s “Cod Throats Meuniere” or his “Grilled Clam Pizza” become the next big thing doesn’t really matter. Most important to him is the camaraderie, respect and competence he has bestowed upon each person who has ever worked for him. He is a “chef among chefs,” they’ll tell you, a true Top Chef Master.

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Using facial recognition, Klik can identify people even before a photo is taken — if you hold up your phone to take a picture of someone, Klik will guess who it is by hovering that person’s first name over the person’s head. If the app doesn’t get it right, it will give you its top choices and you can teach it to improve. Then Klik helps users share the tagged photos on Facebook, Twitter, email and its own public social network.

The app is made by Tel Aviv-based Face.com, which already offers a facial-recognition API to 45,000 developers to enable them to do things like unlock users’ computers by recognizing their faces.

Even if it’s not realistically that huge of a time-saver, Klik is a pretty nifty parlor trick. That goes for other facial-recognition apps, too.

But at the same time, facial recognition is right on the edge of many people’s Internet creepiness comfort level.

Facebook touched off a privacy backlash last year, especially in Europe, when it enabled automatic photo tag suggestions. And Google has sworn it won’t do mobile facial recognition. Google built such technology replica watches, but decided never to release it because of the potential for abuse, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said at D9 last year.

Since then, Google+ did introduce a photo recognition feature — but it’s only enabled for the faces of people who have opted into it.

Klik does limit its facial recognition to people you already know. Once you submit your Facebook credentials, the company crunches all of your photos, your friends’ photos and the photos in which you and your friends are tagged. That is often a ton of pictures of faces — and it can take up to a full day to import and analyze them.

Face.com replica watches, which raised $4.3 million led by Yandex in 2010, told me it is near profitability, based on charging a sliver of top developers for API usage.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Prosecutors want the jury in May’s insider trading trial of former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta to hear three secretly-recorded phone conversations of Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam as evidence of the purported conspiracy between them.

In a pre-trial filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday night, the government said two of Rajaratnam’s conversations with his principal trader and another with Galleon’s then portfolio manager showed Gupta leaked Goldman board secrets at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. The calls were recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“Rajaratnam’s statements in these three recorded conversations are essential evidence of the insider trading charges against Gupta in this case,” prosecutors Reed Brodsky and Richard Tarlowe wrote to U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff.

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A spokeswoman for Gupta’s lawyer, Gary Naftalis, declined to comment on the government’s motion. Defense lawyers have until May 11 to respond. The trial is scheduled to start on May 21.

Gupta, also a former global head of McKinsey & Co, is the highest-ranking corporate executive to be charged in a broad U.S. crackdown on insider trading at hedge funds in recent years. Dozens of people have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.

Gupta is accused of providing inside tips about Goldman and Procter & Gamble board meetings to Rajaratnam in 2007 and 2008. Rajaratnam was recorded by the FBI discussing the Goldman information with trader Ian Horowitz and portfolio manager David Lau.

The indictment said Gupta gave Rajaratnam advance knowledge of a $5 billion investment in Goldman by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman’s surprise fourth-quarter 2008 loss, and P&G’s quarterly earnings in late January 2009.

Monday’s government motion argued that since there were no recordings of phone conversations between Gupta and Rajaratnam on September 23 and on October 23, 2008 and no other participants, “Rajaratnam’s statements in the subsequent wiretapped calls with Horowitz and Lau provide indispensable evidence” that Gupta tipped Rajaratnam and that Rajaratnam purchased and sold Goldman stock on September 23 and October 24 on the basis of those tips by Gupta.

The former Goldman and Procter & Gamble director has denied the charges Tattoo Inks, which include five counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. Gupta says he lost money investing with Rajaratnam and that as many as four other Goldman personnel could have been tipping Galleon. Gupta could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted of securities fraud.

Horowitz has been described in the case as an unindicted co-conspirator. A lawyer for Horowitz could not be reached to comment.

The case is USA v Gupta, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 11-907.

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India is hosting the Commonwealth Games

There’s been a spat over who should open the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, next week. Queen Elizabeth, head of the 54-nation Commonwealth, is too busy to attend the event. She’s delegated Prince Charles, but members of the Indian organizing committee have apparently discussed whether Indian President Pratibha Patil should preside instead. Why is India still in the Commonwealth, anyway?

Well, membership has its privileges. For starters, hosting the games is a bit like hosting the Olympics. The country in question spends a lot on infrastructure in the hopes of bringing in tourist dollars. More generally, Commonwealth citizens have special rights when living in the United Kingdom—more than what any old immigrant would get. An Indian citizen who resides anywhere in the United Kingdom—that’s England, Scotland Cheap DKNY Clothing, Northern Ireland, and Wales—has the right to vote in local and national elections and can also help select members of the European Parliament. * (Several Caribbean members also grant residents from Commonwealth countries voting rights.) And if an Indian citizen were traveling somewhere without an Indian Embassy, he or she could get assistance at the U.K. one instead.

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The Commonwealth gives “technical assistance” in support of economic growth. Drawing from the Commonwealth  Fund for Technical Co-operation (which amounts to about 29 million pounds per year), the Commonwealth provides its needier member states with advisers on trade and land-use strategies, or consultants to help restructure public services, for example.

The Commonwealth is basically a big club. After the British Empire crumbled, eight states (Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom) adopted the 1949 London Declaration. This established, in brief, that all members were free, independent, and equal to one another, and that they recognized King George VI as the symbolic head of their association, known as the Commonwealth of Nations. Several dozen countries have joined since. Typically, joiners have a historical connection to Britain (as in, they were colonies), but in 1995, Mozambique (which was not part of the empire) became a member. To get in, applicants must demonstrate a commitment to democracy Cheap Missoni Dresses, including fair elections and representative legislatures, accept that intra-Commonwealth discussions happen in English, and acknowledge Queen Elizabeth II as their ceremonial leader. Participation in the Commonwealth is completely voluntary—any nation could opt out at any time. Members are supposed to commit themselves to the group’s ideals, but they don’t have any contractual obligations per se (as do members of the United Nations Replica Bandage dresses, for example).

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Of all the disruptions caused by the Web, the chance that an old New York Times story featuring incomplete or outdated bad news about you might nix your chance of getting a job must rank near the bottom. Yet that’s what Clark Hoyt, the newspaper’s public editor, spends his Sunday, Aug. 26, column on.

Roughly one person a day approaches the Times to complain about how his or her life might be unnecessarily complicated by an old Times story unearthed by a Web search Replica Bandage dresses, Hoyt writes. His prime example is Allen Kraus, a former New York City official. Kraus “wonders if” the negative and incomplete Times story from 16 years ago riding atop a Google search of his name might be deterring clients from hiring him in his current incarnation as a consultant.

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Notice that Hoyt doesn’t cite evidence of harm done to Kraus’ reputation by the Google search. He just reports that Kraus wonders if it has scattered potential clients. The other aggrieved individuals described in Hoyt’s column—all unnamed, by the way—also fail to offer any evidence of injuries inflicted by incomplete or erroneous Times pieces. One person grouses that the Times published a story about his arrest for fondling a child but didn’t report the dropped charges. A woman literally weeps to Hoyt over a Times article about weight loss that inaccurately reported her a size 16. Another woman worries that prospective employers will think her résumé a fraud if they cross-check it against the wedding announcement in the Times from 20 years ago that misnamed her alma mater.

This isn’t to suggest that nobody has ever been inconvenienced or even ruined by a moldy Times account. I’m sure some have. But under Hoyt’s supervision, it’s a spindly peg for a column.

The public editor interviews senior Times editors and others to discuss the “problem” and how to solve it. Pull the offending stories from the archives? Re-report every story challenged as incomplete or wrong? Rig the archives so that incomplete stories get buried in Web searches? Program the public archives to forget “news briefs, which generate a surprising number of the complaints,” but still keep them on hand? All overkill Cheap Karen Millen Dresses, but Hoyt still believes something should be done.

One of the flaws in Hoyt’s thinking is his belief that one’s reputation is a possession—like a car or a tennis racket—when one’s reputation actually resides in the minds of others. A person can have as many reputations as people who know him or know of him. Positing that the top link in a Google search of a name equals somebody’s reputation is silly, and Hoyt’s column only encourages that notion.

If Google users conclude that an individual is guilty of fondling a child just because a Times story reported his arrest, that says more about their gullibility than it does about the inadequacies of the Web or the Times. The Times is wonderful, but it’s not a vaccine against stupidity.

Whatever their shortcomings, search engines are a million times superior to human memory, which they are rapidly replacing. In the old days, a reader was just as likely not to recall the exonerating or corrective stories about an individual published in the Times. At least the Web makes it possible to look for the pieces.

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By exaggerating the absolute power of the Times and Google to determine reputation, Hoyt’s column encourages people to think of themselves as technopawns. (It also damages Hoyt’s reputation in the process, but that’s his problem.) I’m all for getting the Times to correct meaningful errors of fact in a decent interval Replica Herve Leger gown, but if you want to secure a better reputation than the one that Google currently spits out Karen Millen Dresses sale, get busy and build it yourself.

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Rondônia, Brazil

The most isolated man on the planet will spend tonight inside a leafy palm-thatch hut in the Brazilian Amazon. As always, insects will darn the air. Spider monkeys will patrol the treetops. Wild pigs will root in the undergrowth. And the man will remain a quietly anonymous fixture of the landscape Replica Tonino Lamborghini Watches, camouflaged to the point of near invisibility.

That description relies on a few unknowable assumptions Where find Replica Bell & Ross Watches, obviously, but they’re relatively safe. The man’s isolation has been so well-established—and is so mind-bendingly extreme—that portraying him silently enduring another moment of utter solitude is a practical guarantee of reportorial accuracy.

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He’s an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he’s the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a decade launched numerous expeditions to track him, to ensure his safety, and to try to establish peaceful contact with him. In 2007, with ranching and logging closing in quickly on all sides, government officials declared a 31-square-mile area around him off-limits to trespassing and development.

It’s meant to be a safe zone. He’s still in there. Alone.

History offers few examples of people who can rival his solitude in terms of duration and degree. The one that comes closest is the “Lone Woman of San Nicolas”—an Indian woman first spotted by an otter hunter in 1853, completely alone on an island off the coast of California. Catholic priests who sent a boat to fetch her determined that she had been alone for as long as 18 years, the last survivor of her tribe. But the details of her survival were never really fleshed out. She died just weeks after being “rescued.”

Certainly other last tribesmen and -women have succumbed unobserved throughout history, the world unaware of their passing. But what makes the man in Brazil unique is not merely the extent of his solitude or the fact that the government is aware of his existence. It’s the way they’ve responded to it.

Advanced societies invariably have subsumed whatever indigenous populations they’ve encountered, determining those tribes’ fates for them. But Brazil is in the middle of an experiment. If peaceful contact is established with the lone Indian, they want it to be his choice. They’ve dubbed this the “Policy of No Contact.” After years of often-tragic attempts to assimilate into modern life the people who still inhabit the few remaining wild places on the planet Replica Paul Picot Watches, the policy is a step in a totally different direction. The case of the lone Indian represents its most challenging test.

A few Brazilians first heard of the lone Indian in 1996, when loggers in the western state of Rondônia began spreading a rumor: A wild man was in the forest, and he seemed to be alone. Government field agents specializing in isolated tribes soon found one of his huts—a tiny shelter of palm thatch, with a mysterious hole dug in the center of the floor. As they continued to search for whoever had built that hut, they discovered that the man was on the run Fake Anonimo Watches, moving from shelter to shelter, abandoning each hut as soon as loggers—or the agents—got close. No other tribes in the region were known to live like he did, digging holes inside of huts—more than five feet deep, rectangular, serving no apparent purpose. He didn’t seem to be a stray castaway from a documented tribe.

Eventually, the agents found the man. He was unclothed, appeared to be in his mid-30s (he’s now in his late 40s Replica Glashutte Watches for sale, give or take a few years), and always armed with a bow-and-arrow. Their encounters fell into a well-worn pattern: tense standoffs, ending in frustration or tragedy. On one occasion, the Indian delivered a clear message to one agent who pushed the attempts at contact too far: an arrow to the chest.

Peaceful contact proved elusive, but those encounters helped the agents stitch together a profile of a man with a calamitous past. In one jungle clearing they found the bulldozed ruins of several huts, each featuring the exact same kind of hole—14 in all—that the lone Indian customarily dug inside his dwellings. They concluded that it had been the site of his village Replica Tissot Watches for Cheap, and that it had been destroyed by land-hungry settlers in early 1996.

Those kinds of clashes aren’t unheard of: Brazil’s 1988 Constitution gave Indians the legal right to the land they have traditionally occupied, which created a powerful incentive for settlers to chase uncontacted tribes off of any properties they might be eyeing for development. Just months before the agents began tracking the lone Indian, they made peaceful first contact with two other tribes that lived in the same region. One tribe, the Akuntsu, had been reduced to just six members. The rest of the tribe, explained the chief, had been killed during a raid by men with guns and chainsaws.

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