- » ToastedRav.com
- » Deep Fried St. Louis
- » Food & Drink
- » Article
The Newest Videos:
|
|
|
| Public Disservice Announcement: Screw Holiday Shopping, Give Cash! | Emily Riesen - 'My Heart's in St. Louis' | The Toast - 11.28.08 - Tila Tequila Out, Ikki Twins In And An Interview With Vince Vaughn |
Updated 83 Days ago
Joey B's On The Hill Grand Opening
Are you dying to get a Landing style bar on your block? Residents in The Hill weren't itching to either, but owners Tony Gianino and Joey Barczewski made it past the neighborhood's red tape by expanding the menu featured at Joey B's on the Landing to offer more of a "fine dining" selection and they hosted the grand opening of Joey B's On The Hill last night. Barczewski said the new spot is more for an "older crowd" and something he and Gianino have wanted to do because as they have gotten older, they started to settle down a little.
Joey B's took up the space left behind after Bartolino's moved to the bottom floor of the Drury Inn on Hampton (I still don't get that one, but I digress...). They installed up a lot of big screen televisions and created a menu with some of the staple items you would find at other restaurants in the area. The salad has provel, pimentos and a house dressing, and the pizza is cut in squares. I like to think of myself as somewhat of a pizza connoisseur (my hips can attest to that claim if you want to challenge it), so I was really excited when I saw on their menu "Joey B's Pizza was featured on Rachel Ray's Tasty Travels Show on the Food Network." I immediately ordered the large Loaded Veggie pizza. In my opinion, the pizza could have been a little bigger, and little less burnt, and had a little more sauce - but the cheese was pretty good and the veggies tasted pretty fresh. On a brighter note, they did a great job finding an enthusiastic and attentive serving staff that wasn't hovering and annoying - and that can be a tough feat.
If you are looking for a spot to knock a few back and munch on some basic bar food while watching the game, Joey B's On The Hill is a good pick; I counted eight flat screen televisions just from where I was sitting in the back room. Good game day places are pretty much always a welcome addition.
About The Author:
Got a story you want to share, or just need someone to talk to? Email Me! melody@toastedrav.comI have a penchant for pizza, a love of books, and a strong cup of coffee always makes me smile. When I'm not writing for ToastedRav I like long walks on concrete sidewalks, hanging-lamp lit dinners, and a good bottle of Shiraz.
© Copyright 2008 ToastedRav.com and Bonneville International
An Equal Opportunity Employer all rights reserved
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.