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April Vera Cruz suggested Jane's Fountain in Kalihi for our latest Where You Live segment.
Walking into Jane's almost seemed like stepping into a time machine. Everything from the jukebox to the slice orange booths screams nostalgia.
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"It's got that feel of being here a long time. Some people come and say, 'Oh, I remember when I was young,' because there used to be a higher counter there," said customer Marc.
In the middle of the restaurant, a jukebox in mint condition.
Karen Kan is the waitress/owner of Jane's Fountain. Kan hasn't changed the menu since she bought the eatery from the Nakasone family just four years ago.
But, the establishment has been open since the 1940s. Many say the fountain is the kind of place that makes Liliha, Liliha. And it's still home to local grind classics.
"When my mom and dad would want to eat saimin, this was the place to come," said customer Josh.
Saimin is one of the most popular items here. The dashi, which means soup, is made daily.
"I always order the Wun Ton Min and sometimes I order the hamburger cause it's easy to just take," said Marc.
The burgers are another staple at Jane's Fountain. On the other side of the restaurant, we caught veteran customers Kathy and Larry chowing down on their Hamburger Steak Plate complete with two scoops of rice, side of mac salad, corn and tsukemono.
"Homemade hamburger, so its' good," said customer Kathy. "Hardly find places like this that make their own. Especially the hamburger steak."
Back in the kitchen, we tried asking Kan what goes into making her ono burger.
"Some egg, some salt and sauce. That's it. Regular," said Kan. "Not too much. Just something everyone know how to make."
Many of Kan's customers have been coming here for decades, like Makaleka Aikalakahele. Her first meal here started when she was in diapers. She says places like this are hard to come by.
"To me, it's a mom and pop deli. You don't have too many. You have all the other restaurants," said Aikalakahele. "It's like home base. You know you getting homemade food."
Aikalakahele introduced her Aunty Gladys to the cheeseburger here and now Aunty says she's hooked!
"So I came back intending to take one home with me. I live in Makaha. So, I took it in the car and took one bite, and the thing never even make it to Ewa Beach. Was all gone!" said Aunty Gladys.
The tiny Liliha eatery is open as early as 7 a.m. and cooks meals until 9 p.m. on weekdays. So, whether it's breakfast for dinner, dinner for breakfast, the choice is yours.
And what's a fountain without a root beer soda float? It's topped with, not one, but two scoops of vanilla ice cream goodness.
It was so nice spending time at a place like this because you have so many regular customers that have come over the years, and its' really like everybody know everybody, and you see them catching up on conversation while they order their hamburger.

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PS4 had Sony's best launch game line-up to date says Koller
PlayStation 4 launched in the North America last week, along with a first-party titles Killzone: Shadow Fall, Knack and Resogun. Sony's vice president of marketing Jon Koller reckons it was the company's best console launch line-up to date.
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As I write this column, I hear the hum of portable generators outside the window. I have power, but neighbors down the road are out and have been since Irene swept through the area on August 28. Tropical-storm-force winds blew down trees and caused widespread power outages throughout the area, and heavy rains caused flooding and washouts on roads. Several instances of residential flooding were reported, and many farm fields were flooded.
We caught a little bit of a break when drier air got entrained into Irene's cyclonic flow as it passed our area; most of the heavy rain took place early, as the northern half of the storm came over us. The Delaware River crested about a foot below flood stage Monday morning.
Early Sunday, the New York rare bird list server was reporting offshore birds such as stormy petrels and jaegers normally only seen on the beaches of Long Island and up the Hudson River. Here, there weren't many other birds flying during the storm; the birds and other critters were probably hunkered down.
The following day was dry and sunny, and a lot of wildlife made an appearance to make up for any foraging missed the day before. The ground was littered with trees and branches, and trees were blocking some roads. A few days after the storm, a great variety of mushrooms were observed; some of these turned be welcome snacks for some of the creatures that weathered Irene's wild weather.


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London, UK, 18 March 2014 - GroundWork, the leading Unified Monitoring solution for IT operations management, virtualisation and cloud monitoring, today announced a strategic partnership with the open source technology integrator Quru to help expand its presence in the UK market.
Under this partnership, GroundWork will leverage Quru's strong expertise in developing and deploying integrated IT solutions as well as the synergies resulting from their joint partnership with Red Hat, a global open source solutions provider.
"We are really excited about working with GroundWork to help them grow their business in the UK", said Roland Whitehead, CEO at Quru.
"GroundWork's Unified Monitoring technology is fully compatible with our expertise in using open solutions and fills an important slot in our portfolio of system management tools, enabling our customers to optimise systems performance and cut down IT costs. Moreover, our common understanding of Red Hat's technology, which is embedded in GroundWork's unified monitoring platform, will create useful synergies in terms of delivering additional implementation and integration services to our clients", he added.
Traditional approaches for managing complex and heavily virtualised IT environments are often costly and rarely provide in-depth detail and visibility into IT systems and applications. GroundWork's technology offers an effective solution to these challenges by enabling integrated monitoring of all IT environments, including cloud, virtualisation, network, application, server and storage data.
"We see an increased demand for unified monitoring solutions in the UK and the partnership with Quru will enable us to cater to this market and strengthen our footprint in the region. Quru has a proven track record of working with large enterprises to deliver scalable, integrated IT solutions and we believe that their IT expertise perfectly complements our business and technology strengths", said Dave Lilly, CEO at GroundWork.
"We've developed a successful relationship with both GroundWork and Quru over the past four years and are confident that this new partnership will result in great synergies between the two companies. This will enable them to successfully cater to the growing needs for advanced unified monitoring solutions in the UK market", commented Simon Williams, head of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) EMEA at Red Hat.
GroundWork's Unified Monitoring solutions will be available for UK customers with immediate effect.
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"We build IoT infrastructure products - when you have to integrate different devices, different systems and cloud you have to build an application to do that but we eliminate the need to build an application. Our products can integrate any device, any system, any cloud regardless of protocol," explained Peter Jung, Chief Product Officer at Pulzze Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it's challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging "as-a-service" options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data professionals...
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Internet of @ThingsExpo has announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named tech chair of Internet of @ThingsExpo 2017 New York The 7th Internet of @ThingsExpo will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Chris Matthieu is the co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, a revolutionary real-time IoT platform recently acquired by Citrix. Octoblu connects things, systems, people and clouds to a global mesh network allowing users to automate and control design flo...
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The WebRTC Summit New York, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of improving IT delivery by eliminating waste through automated business models leveraging cloud technologies. WebRTC Summit is co-located with 20th International Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo. WebRTC is the future of browser-to-browser communications, and continues to make inroads into the traditional, difficult, plug-in web co...
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Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their backend AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT - especially in the connected home and office. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Kocher, founder and managing director of Grey Heron, explained how Amazon is extending its reach to become a major force in IoT by building on its dominant cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strat...
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Complete Internet of Things (IoT) embedded device security is not just about the device but involves the entire product's identity, data and control integrity, and services traversing the cloud. A device can no longer be looked at as an island; it is a part of a system. In fact, given the cross-domain interactions enabled by IoT it could be a part of many systems. Also, depending on where the device is deployed, for example, in the office building versus a factory floor or oil field, security ha...
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In addition to all the benefits, IoT is also bringing new kind of customer experience challenges - cars that unlock themselves, thermostats turning houses into saunas and baby video monitors broadcasting over the internet. This list can only increase because while IoT services should be intuitive and simple to use, the delivery ecosystem is a myriad of potential problems as IoT explodes complexity. So finding a performance issue is like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack.
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The idea of comparing data in motion (at the sensor level) to data at rest (in a Big Data server warehouse) with predictive analytics in the cloud is very appealing to the industrial IoT sector. The problem Big Data vendors have, however, is access to that data in motion at the sensor location. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Scott Allen, CMO of FreeWave, discussed how as IoT is increasingly adopted by industrial markets, there is going to be an increased demand for sensor data from the outermos...
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Data is the fuel that drives the machine learning algorithmic engines and ultimately provides the business value. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Ed Featherston, director/senior enterprise architect at Collaborative Consulting, will discuss the key considerations around quality, volume, timeliness, and pedigree that must be dealt with in order to properly fuel that engine.
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"Once customers get a year into their IoT deployments, they start to realize that they may have been shortsighted in the ways they built out their deployment and the key thing I see a lot of people looking at is - how can I take equipment data, pull it back in an IoT solution and show it in a dashboard," stated Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Everyone knows that truly innovative companies learn as they go along, pushing boundaries in response to market changes and demands. What's more of a mystery is how to balance innovation on a fresh platform built from scratch with the legacy tech stack, product suite and customers that continue to serve as the business' foundation. In his General Session at 19th Cloud Expo, Michael Chambliss, Head of Engineering at ReadyTalk, discussed why and how ReadyTalk diverted from healthy revenue and mor...
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As data explodes in quantity, importance and from new sources, the need for managing and protecting data residing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments grow with it. Managing data includes protecting it, indexing and classifying it for true, long-term management, compliance and E-Discovery. Commvault can ensure this with a single pane of glass solution – whether in a private cloud, a Service Provider delivered public cloud or a hybrid cloud environment – across the heterogeneous enter...
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The 20th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Containers, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal ...
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They don't play baseball at Southern Methodist University anymore, having disbanded the team in 1981 with the arrival of Title IX. But in the spring of 1975, the Mustangs had an outfielder join them for one season. He'd been a three-year starter at linebacker for the Mustangs' football team, and a team captain as a senior in the fall of 1974.
That outfielder was Ted Thompson, who lettered for the Mustangs that spring. But considering he was more linebacker than line-drive hitter, he learned a thing or two about swinging and missing that season.
So on Thursday afternoon, as the Green Bay Packers general manager talked about the upcoming 2013 NFL Draft and his philosophy about trading forward and backward, he fully understood the baseball metaphor he was about to make – and he didn't necessarily need the assist from his mentor, retired Packers GM Ron Wolf, whom he credited with drawing the analogy first.
"It's like Ron always said: 'It's kind of like baseball, you're not going to get a hit every time you go to the plate, but if you have more swings you have a better chance at getting a hit,'" said Thompson, who'll enter Day 1 of the draft next Thursday with eight selections – the Packers' picks in each of the seven rounds, plus a fifth-round compensatory selection. "I think as a general philosophy, I'd rather have more than less. But at the end of the day I'd rather have more quality than anything. But quality and quantity both is a nice thing."
For the most part, Thompson's previous eight drafts have had both quality and quantity. When the season ended with a 45-31 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional playoffs, 27 of the 53 players on the active roster were Thompson draft picks, starting with quarterback Aaron Rodgers in 2005. Six more draft picks were on injured reserve or the physically unable to perform list, and two more were on the team's practice squad.
In his eight drafts, Thompson has selected 75 players: 11 in 2005, 12 in 2006, 10 in 2007, nine in 2008, eight in 2009, seven in 2010, 10 in 2011 and eight last year. But whereas he used to trade in only one direction – backward, to get more "swings" – Thompson is a bit harder to pigeonhole as this year's draft approaches.
"(You trade up) when you think it's when you think you see value. That's the reason sometimes we'll go backwards, (too) – when we see value later in the draft and numbers at positions where we think there's value," Thompson explained during his annual pre-draft news conference at Lambeau Field. "It's a trade-off. You know that you're giving up something if you trade up and you know that you're giving up something in terms of an opportunity to take a particular player in you go backwards."
In his first three drafts as Packers GM, Thompson executed nine draft-day trades – all of them backward to accumulate more picks. Then, in 2008, Thompson traded back out of the first round (Jordy Nelson ended up being the team's top pick at No. 36, six spots after the No. 30 selection Thompson traded to the New York Jets) but he also traded up for the first time, moving up in the fourth round to draft Wake Forest defensive end Jeremy Thompson. That broke a streak of 17 consecutive backward draft trades – including seven trades back with the Seahawks – for Thompson.
But overall in that 2008 draft, Thompson still trended toward trading backward. The other four trades he made that year were all to move back, meaning 13 of his first 14 draft-day trades with the Packers had been to add more picks.
But in 2009, Thompson gave up the Packers' second-round selection (No. 41) and both of their third-round choices (Nos. 73 and 83) to acquire the New England Patriots' first-round pick (No. 26) that he used on Clay Matthews. (He also received New England's fifth-round choice in return). Matthews, of course, has been to four straight Pro Bowls and signed a five-year, $66 million extension on Wednesday.
In 2010, Thompson traded up in the third round in order to take Georgia Tech safety Morgan Burnett – his only trade that year.
In 2011, Thompson's first two trades were backwards, moving back out of the fourth by sending pick No. 129 (fourth) and No. 204 (seventh) to the Denver Broncos for picks No. 141 (fifth) and No. 186 (sixth) in return. Then, Thompson sent pick No. 163 to the San Francisco 49ers in exchange for Nos.174 and 231, then turned around and traded No. 174 and No. 231 to Miami for No. 169 and No. 218, giving the Packers three sixth-round picks (Nos. 179, 186, 197) and two seventh-rounders (Nos. 218, 233) to close the draft.
Then came last year, when Thompson traded up not once, not twice, but three times: He traded up in the second round with the Philadelphia Eagles to take defensive end Jerel Worthy (giving up a fourth-round pick); traded up in the second round again, with the New England Patriots, to take cornerback Casey Hayward (giving up third- and fifth-round picks); and traded up one more time in the fifth round, reacquiring the No. 163 overall pick he'd sent to New England and using it to take inside linebacker Terrell Manning (giving up one sixth- and two seventh-round picks).
This year, armed with eight picks – only the fifth-round compensatory pick cannot be traded – Thompson could again be on the move, and he could be in the market for adding picks if he sees value.
For despite the team's second straight NFC North division title and a three-year regular-season record of 36-12, the Packers do have some obvious needs.
Even though they used their 2010 (Bryan Bulaga) and 2011 (Derek Sherrod) first-round draft picks on offensive tackles, the offensive line remains a need. And despite drafting Matthews in 2009 and Nick Perry last year, the Packers have only three outside linebackers currently on the roster: Matthews, Perry and Dezman Moses.
The search for an adequate replacement for three-time Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins continues, and with the free-agent departure of Greg Jennings, a wide receiver in one of the first three rounds can't be ruled out, either. Defensive line is always a need, and perhaps is even moreso with B.J. Raji and Ryan Pickett entering the final years of their contracts. Thompson has drafted a true running back only four times in eight drafts, but this could be the year he does so again. And despite having five tight ends on the roster last season, the Packers could add another this year since starter Jermichael Finley is in the final year of his deal, Tom Crabtree left as a free agent and Andrew Quarless didn't play a down last year because of a 2011 knee injury.
But one thing is certain: Because of their adamant draft-and-develop approach to team-building, Thompson and his reconfigured scouting staff can't afford to swing and miss very often. While home runs would be ideal, a few singles and doubles would continue to steady roster building that Thompson likes to do.
"I think (the draft) is important. We've always said, (and) we've never swayed away from this: We believe in drafting and developing players. We think that is the best way to build your team over the long term," Thompson said. "That doesn't mean we won't sign free agents or do different ways of acquiring players and going to college free agency and that sort of thing, but we do believe that continually every year you need a new class of players and young men to join your team in order to sustain over the long term the ability to win and compete in the NFL."
Does that put greater pressure on Thompson to be right, as he tries to keep the Packers a Super Bowl contender during star quarterback Aaron Rodgers' prime?
"Pressure's what you make it," the 60-year-old Thompson replied. "I'm a single guy, I don't have children to worry about. It's not that much pressure. But you want to do right.. I'm not trying to make light of this. It's important. And we gnash our teeth over it and we try to do the best we can to make the right decisions. But at the end of the day, we don't worry about things."
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Island Beneath the Sea (Paperback)
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage Zarite, known as Tete, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo.
When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he discovers that running his father's plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. Marriage also proves problematic when, eight years later, he brings home a bride. But it is his teenaged slave, Tete, upon whom Valmorain becomes most dependent, as their lives intertwine across four tumultuous decades.
In Island Beneath the Sea, internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende spins the unforgettable saga of an extraordinary woman determined to find love amid loss and forge her own identity under the cruelest of circumstances.
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"[An] entertaining sweep...The canvas contains no less than the revolutionary history of the world's first black republic...Allende revels in period details...Her cast is equally vibrant..."
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"Exuberant passions, strong heroines and intricate plots...a world as enchanted—and enchanting—as it is brutal and unjust... A page-turning drama."
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"Enthralling, blood-chilling, and heart-breaking…Island Beneath the Sea is a historical novel which works brilliantly in conveying the cyclone that was the eighteenth century."
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"…with gorgeous place descriptions, a keen eye for history and a predilection for high drama…There are few more charming storytellers in the world than Isabel Allende."
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-Library Journal
"A lush epic of racism and rebellion which begins in Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti)…In a culture of violence, Tété proves that ingenuity can be as heroic as love."
-Cathleen Medwick, More magazine
"Epic scope and sweep…[Allende's] characters, linked by blood, love triangles and even incest, have a depth and complexity that…imbues the proceedings with a lushness bordering on magic realism."
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An entrancing and astute storyteller…In a many-faceted plot, Allende animates irresistible characters authentic in their emotional turmoil and pragmatic adaptability…while masterfully dramatizing the psychic wounds of slavery."
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The first thing we did was learn about safety rules about fishing. Then we learned how to cast with a fishing pole by going outside and casting at fake fish to see how skilled we were.
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We played a fun, little trivia game to learn about the requirements for keeping fish that you catch. Then, finally, we got to fishing on the pier.
Out of all luck, I did not catch anything, but everyone else had some luck.
After a long time of fishing, we decided to pack up and go home. The day was filled with education and learning but, most important, we all had fun!


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Believe it or not, the title of this entry does not spring from my (misplaced?) enthusiasm for cassette tapes. Not directly, anyway.
Meet Brian Shimkovitz, recently spotlighted in the Fader for his blog called (what else) Awesome Tapes from Africa. In some ways, it would appear that Mr. Shimkovitz (Brian?) and I are brethren in our efforts simultaneously to preserve the cassette tape as a medium and to digitally disperse the contents of cassettes. His project differs from the Listening Project superficially, of course: he collects music from all over Africa, which he then digitizes and shares on his blog. He also draws opinion in different ways. By sharing the contents of his tapes, Shimkovitz provides a new forum for the voices of these artists, but also makes his own point about recording media, the music industry, and access. As the music works its magic on his readers (and listeners, I suppose), Shimkovitz's project begs for comments; in the Fader video, he speaks specifically of the different opinions and voices that have entered into conversation on his blog. No need to take my word for it, though… that's what links are for.
Incidentally, it sounds a little bit like the sound for the video might have been recorded on a cassette tape, but perhaps my ears betray me.


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How to Segment an Orange
Learn how to segment an orange in this video from EVERY DAY WITH RACHAEL RAY magazine, plus get tricks and tips on the best way to cut and slice oranges. From our collection of Step by Step cooking videos.
-Hi there, I'm Teri Tsang, the food editor here at Everyday with Rachael Ray Magazine and I'm going to teach you how to get the most out of an orange. First, you can always get zest, which is perfect for tossing over soup, adding in to different stews. You can even sprinkle in salads, quick breads. The rind and the zest actually contain a lot of the natural juices and oils from the citrus and they filled with flavor. The easiest way of doing this is the use of Microplane zester and you just wanna work. Actually, it might be a little bit easier over a sheet of wax paper to collect the zest as you go. You can use any old grater, but these microplane zesters are amazingly quick and really simple to use and they're available anywhere we buy cookware. If you're here with me in the kitchen, you could smell all the orange, aromas floating through the air. You'll see that I've only zest sort of the shiny peel of the orange. The reason why is that this is the pith where the orange actually starts to get really better and you don't wanna over zest an orange and end up with better pith. The same apply to grapefruit, lemons, and limes. I was finished up with zest, you can set this aside. Another good tip for keeping zest in moist is wrap it in a paper towel and just store in the fridge until you're ready to use it. Next, just take a slicing knife. You're gonna lap off about half an inch from the top of the orange as well as the bottom. So, we're gonna cut up a little bit more. You wanna be with the-- the top of the orange and cut a pair little piece from the other end and there you see the bottom of the orange. Stand the orange upright and just get up nice and close with the orange. We're gonna cut downwards in a curved motion cutting along the body of the orange. And from here, you wanna cut flesh to the line between the actual orange membrane as well as the skin. It's also nice to kind of keep a firm and gentle press on the orange. If hold on too tight, you have a-- you'll have a tendency to sort of squeeze out the juice from the orange, but otherwise we just hold it in place so we'll be able to rotate it easily without losing control. If you've missed any part, just look over any orange, repeat the same step. Next, I'm going to show how to segment the orange. These are the membranes of the orange. And what you're gonna want to do is cut in between in like a V motion so starting on this side and work over a bowl so you can collect the juices as well to segment. And segment should pop right. So just work your way around the orange collecting the membrane with your other thumb as you go. Orange segments are great on salads, again in all sorts of baked goods. They also go really well with porkloin and pork chops. You can also do with some grapefruit segment and this is really one of the easiest cooking tricks under the sun and it's great for pick eaters that don't like skin and salads and things like that. And this just makes a nice presentation in your food. As you can see in the bowl, we've not only collected the orange segments with a lot of juice as well. And our last step is to squeeze all the juice from the membrane. Be sure to wash your hands. So now you've got zest, the segment, and the juice and you've gotten the most out of your orange.


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Cooking School Lesson 1: How to Make Sauce Using Your Food Processor
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began the demolition of Building K-25's east wing. The former uranium enrichment facility, located at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), was once the world's largest building under one roof, covering more than 44 acres. The project is one of DOE's highest Environmental Management (EM) priorities in Oak Ridge and an integral component to completing cleanup of ETTP.
"We are excited to begin this phase of the project," said John Eschenberg, the Oak Ridge Office's acting deputy manager and assistant manager for EM. "The result of our hard work during the past many months allows us to begin this demolition sooner than expected. We are intently focused and looking forward to the successful completion of this work."
Demolition of the superstructure's west wing, measuring 844,000 square feet, concluded in January 2010; since that time, Bechtel Jacobs Company (BJC) has performed cleanout and pre-demolition activities in the neighboring east wing.
"Over the past 18 months, BJC has generated almost $45 million in savings that enabled us to safely accelerate the K-25 schedule to the point that allowed east wing demolition to begin today," said Bechtel Jacobs President Joe Nemec. "This accomplishment provides a firm foundation for completing demolition of K-25, and is a credit to our project team."
Today's demolition separates the east wing's technetium-99 contaminated area, which accounts for approximately 20 percent of the facility, from the remainder of the structure. This allows for demolition to progress as workers continue preparation activities in the areas containing technetium-99.
BJC began today's demolition, but URS | CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) will be DOE's primary environmental cleanup contractor effective August 1, assuming all demolition responsibilities. UCOR was awarded the ETTP cleanup contract in April and has been heavily involved in transition activities with DOE and BJC since that time.
K-25 was constructed in 1944, as part of the Manhattan Project, to develop the first atomic weapon. The superstructure enriched uranium for defense and commercial nuclear power uses until 1985 and was permanently shut down in 1987.


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Sierra rocks her style among a bunch of big boulders for Brash by Payless. The video features the new song 'Burn' available on iTunes HERE.
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Here's a great shot of A Rocket To The Moon posted by American Songwriter when they premiered the song 'First Kiss' earlier this week. Click HERE to read what the band had to say about writing this song from That Old Feeling EP.
"This song was inspired by Nicholas Sparks, I guess you could say. Our love for chick flicks is rather obvious (or pathetic). The Notebook, A Walk to Remember… all the good ones!" - Nick Santino
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Watch the video above to see Fun. perform 'Some Nights' on Belgium's Channel EEN this past weekend. You can see their performance of 'We Are Young' as well HERE.
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Listen above to Ellie Goulding perform her version of Fun.'s 'Some Nights' in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.
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Watch the video above to hear Nick Santino of A Rocket To The Moon and Debby Ryan cover Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.'
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Director of the Fontana Regional Library system, Wallace stood proudly in front of a robust crowd on May 8 at the First Presbyterian Church in Bryson City. The event, dubbed "Honoring the Past by Building for the Future," was a big day for the library system, and an even bigger day for the next phase of the town's Marianna Black Library.
"A library is more than a place that works well. A library is, and should be, a public place, a center of the life of its community," Wallace quoted from Our Singular Strengths by Michael Gorman. "And that library should embody the aspirations of the members of that community — not only through its collections and services, but also as a place that houses communal activities and the exhibits that feed the community's hunger for art and enlightenment."
With those words, the ceremony began. And at the center of the celebration were Don and Toni Davidson. The couple decided to kickstart the fundraising efforts for the new library by donating 9 acres of land and a check for $50,000 towards the future facility. The property sits between the high school and downtown on Fontana Road.
"The ball is rolling, but there will still be more challenges that will have to be met," Don said. "Hopefully, with this, there are people in the right places that will rally together and overcome those challenges."
From The Ground Up
Swain County's new library has been pretty much a pie-in-the-sky dream for many years now. Between a lack of funding, community support and just meeting basic needs, breaking ground on a new building seemed like a far-off and distant prospect.
Based on studies done for what the county needs, a new library is estimated to cost around $5.9 million. That figure can be compared to the already-constructed cost of the libraries in Jackson ($7.4 million) and Macon ($4.6 million) counties. Until the recent land and monetary donation, the library system had only studies and structural designs. And though the Swain County Board of Commissioners has yet to officially contribute funds due to severe budget constraints, talks are in the works to make that support a reality.
"We're collaborating with the county right now to find ways to raise funds, whereas the library before would raise its own funds," said Chester Bartlett, chairman of the Fontana Regional Library Board. "There are many things in discussion. Traditionally, the county and the city are the landholders and they would fund the building. Our study goes out until 2030, so until we determine the size and square footage we need, we won't have an exact cost at that point."
"Hopefully we'll continue fundraising and keep moving forward," added Phil Carson, chairman of the board of commissioners. "[Don and Toni's] donation will get folks to think about their hometown, their county and about expanding into future generations."
Remembering The Past
But with all of this discussion about a new building, the donation announcement dinner didn't forget the past — the decades of vital resources the Marianna Black Library has provided the county.
In 1929, Black and her husband Stanley, an attorney, brought library services to Bryson City and greater Swain County. Marianna would traverse the area with two suitcases full of books that went into circulation. After a couple of years, she received a shelf for her books at the county courthouse. A decade into her endeavor, a physical library was located where the current police station resides. In 1969, a new location was decided upon and a new library built, which still stands and serves its original purpose some 45 years later.
"I would like to emphasize that it took approximately 40 years for library services to go from two suitcases to a freestanding building," said Swain County Librarian Jeff Delfield. "That building was [constructed] 45 years ago. We are still in that lovely building, but it is time to start building for the future."
The Davidsons were well aware of the history of the library, which is why they felt the need to step in and help. Toni herself is a Bryson City native and knows the importance of having accessible education in a rural community.
"I've always been thankful that I was raised in Bryson City," she said. "They say it takes a village: well, it does. I had good teachers, a good church and a good library. I had all the resources that I needed to go forward and be successful, and I want that for other people, too."
Toni worked for Bell telephone systems in Atlanta for 31 years. Don is the president and CEO of Inglett & Stubbs Electrical Construction, one of the premier companies of its kind in the country, which works on large-scale projects in Atlanta and around the Southeast.
"The need for knowledge is evermore important as it was 40 years ago," Don said. "A library isn't just about initial education. It's about continuing education, cultural education and community education — a place where anybody of any age can use it."


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Monroe Co. justice center moves forward
County Board approves funding
It's an issue that has been tossed back-and-forth for years, but some decisions have finally been made about the future of a new Monroe County justice center.
Monroe County supervisors voted last night to move forward with a project that will give the county a new and up to date justice center.
Board members approved using $5 million from the general reserve fund, but butted heads on borrowing money through building bonds.
Initially, the supervisors failed a referendum to allow the county to borrow up to $23 million by a single vote. It was eventually reconsidered and an amended $20 million dollar limit was approved.
Board members also approved keeping the site downtown Sparta, something voters have overwhelmingly supported in two different elections.
At last night's meeting supervisors were made aware of the poor condition of the present building. They were given a report that said at least 65 areas in the current courthouse fail to meet state standards.
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This is Part 1 in a two-part series on system panics. In this column, Michael Lucas talks about how to prepare a FreeBSD system in case of a panic. In the next column, he'll talk about what to do when the worst happens.
I've built my reputation on reliability, a process made infinitely easier by FreeBSD. That's why I felt so shocked when a client called and said, "My server just went down for the second time in a day."
This client runs an ISP and relies heavily on FreeBSD for his mail and Web services. His 2.2.8-stable boxes have uptimes approaching a year--they'd be longer, but we had to rearrange the power cables in the server room one night. This system ran 4-stable and had been in production for several months.
Instead of a login prompt, the console displayed a message much like this one:
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x80c0153a
fault code / supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc015aa84
stack pointer = 0x10:0xc7377e7c
frame pointer = 0x10:0xc7377e80
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
current process = 5 (syncer)
interrupt mask = bio
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
If you're an inexperienced sysadmin, this can turn your blood cold. Unix in general, and FreeBSD in particular, generally gives friendly messages that describe what's wrong and give you a place to start looking, or in the worst case, a term to type into your favorite search engine. The only word that looks even vaguely familiar in this message is "syncer". Most people don't know what the syncer is. Most of those who recognize it know better than to try to fix it. The "mysterious panic" is among the worst situations you can have in FreeBSD.
The first time this happened to me, several years ago, I scrambled for a piece of paper and a pen. Eventually I found an old envelope and a broken stub of pencil, and crawled between the server rack and the rough brick wall. In one hand, I balanced the 6-inch, black-and-white monitor I dragged back there with me. With the other hand, I held the old envelope up against the wall. Apparently I had a third hand to copy the panic message to the envelope, because it somehow got there. Finally, scraped and cramped, I slithered back out of the rack and victoriously typed the whole mess into an email. Surely the crack FreeBSD developers would be able to look at this garbage and tell me exactly what had happened.
After this struggle, the immediate response was quite frustrating. "Can you send a backtrace?"
I've seen many, many messages to a FreeBSD mailing list reporting problems like this. They always get the same response I got. Most of these people are never heard from again, and I understand exactly how they feel. When you've been dealing with a server that crashes, or (worse) keeps crashing, the last thing you want to do is reconfigure it.
There's a simple way around this problem, however: Set up your server to handle a panic before the panic happens. Set it up when you install the server. That way, you'll automatically get a backtrace if it ever crashes. This might seem like a novel idea, and it certainly isn't emphasized in the FreeBSD documentation, but it make sense. Be ready for disaster. If it never happens, well, you don't have anything to complain about. If you get a panic, you're ready. You can present the FreeBSD folks with a decent, full debugging dump.
The problem with the panic message on my envelope is that it only gives a tiny scrap of the story. It's like describing your stolen car as "red, with a scratch on the fender." If you don't give the car's make, model, and VIN number or license plate, you cannot expect the police to make much headway. Similarly, without more information from your crashing kernel, the FreeBSD developers can't catch the criminal code.
The standard FreeBSD kernel install removes all the debugging information from the kernel before installing it. This debugging information includes "symbols," which provide a map between the machine code and the source code. Such a map can be larger than the actual program. Nobody wants to run a kernel that's three times larger than it has to be! It also includes a complete list of source code line numbers, so the developer can learn exactly where a problem occurred. Without this information, the developer is stuck trying to map a kernel core to the source code by hand. It's somewhat like trying to assemble a million-piece puzzle without a box, a picture, or even knowing that you have all the pieces. This is an ugly job. It's even uglier when you consider that the developer who needs to do the work is a volunteer.
To prepare for a kernel panic, you need the system source code installed. You need one (or more) swap partition that is at least one MB larger than your physical memory and preferably twice as large as your RAM. If you have 512MB of RAM, for example, you need a swap partition that is 513MB or larger, with 1024MB being preferable. (On a server, you should certainly have multiple swap partitions on multiple drives!) If you don't have that, you have to either add another hard drive with an adequate swap partition or reinstall. While having a /var partition with at least that much disk space free is helpful, it isn't necessary.
The kernel crash-capturing process works somewhat like this. If a properly configured system crashes, it will save a core dump of the system memory. You can't save it to a file, because the crashed kernel doesn't know about files; it only knows about partitions. The simplest place to write this dump is the swap partition. The dump is placed as close to the end of the swap partition as possible. Once the crashing system saves the core to swap, it reboots the computer.
During the reboot, /etc/rc enables the swap partition. It then (probably)
fsck on the crashed disks. It has to enable swapping before running
fsck, because
fsck might need to use swap space. Let's hope you
have enough swap space that
fsck can get everything it needs without
overwriting the dump file lurking in your swap partition. Once the system has a place where
it can save a core dump, it checks the swap partition for a dump. Upon finding a core,
savecore copies it from swap to the proper file, clears the dump from swap,
and lets the reboot proceed. You now have a kernel core file and can use that to get a
The examples given here are for FreeBSD 4-stable. If you're running 3-stable, paths will be slightly different. If you're running -current, you should have done all of this long ago.
Your first step to make this work is to build a debugging kernel. I'm assuming that you know how to build a custom kernel. If you don't, please see the FreeBSD Handbook for details. All you need to do is add these lines to your kernel configuration.
options DDB
makeoptions DEBUG=-g
DDB option installs the DDB kernel debugger. (This isn't strictly
necessary, but it can be helpful and doesn't take that much room.) Finally, the
makeoptions you set here tell the system to build a debugging kernel.
When you're configuring your system, you need to decide how you want the system to behave after a panic. Do you want the computer to reboot, or do you want it to stay at the panic screen until you manually trigger a reboot? If the system is at a remote location, you almost certainly want the computer to reboot automatically. If you're at the console, debugging kernel changes, or if you've discovered a filesystem bug, you almost certainly want the system to wait for you to tell it to reboot.
If you want the computer to reboot automatically, include the kernel option
DDB_UNATTENDED. Otherwise, the system will wait for you to tell it to reboot.
(Here's a little-known BSD trick for you: You can specify more than one option on a
options DDB, DDB_UNATTENDED
Once you have the kernel set up the way you want, do the usual dance to configure and install it. When this finishes, you'll find a file in the kernel compile directory called kernel.debug. This is your kernel with symbols. Save it somewhere. When this process fails, one of the frequent causes is losing the debugging kernel and then trying to debug a crashed kernel with a different kernel.debug. This won't work. I generally copy kernel.debug to /var/crash/kernel.debug.date, so I can tell when a particular debug kernel was built. This lets me date-match the current kernel to a debugging kernel, and it also tells me when a kernel.debug is old enough that I can delete it.
Now set the proper options in /etc/rc.conf. First, tell the system where
to write the core dump. This is called the
dumpdev. FreeBSD uses the swap
partition as the dump device; that's why it has to be slightly larger than your physical
memory. (You can use a UFS partition, but after the crash, it won't be a usable UFS
partition anymore!) You can get the device name from /etc/fstab. Look for a
line with a FSType entry of "swap"; the first entry in that line is the physical
device name. On my laptop, my swap field in /etc/fstab looks
like this:
/dev/ad0s4b none swap sw 0 0
My swap partition is /dev/ad0s4b, so I specify this as the dump device in /etc/rc.conf.
The next step is to tell your system where to save the dump after the reboot. The
default is /var/crash, but you can change this with rc.conf's
dumpdir setting.
As you become more experienced in saving panics, you might find that you need to adjust
the core-saving behavior. Read savecore(8), and set any appropriate options in
savecore_flags in /etc/rc. One popular flag is -z, which
compresses the core file and can save some disk space. savecore(8) is now smart enough to
automatically eliminate unused memory from the dump, which can save a lot of room.
If you're in front of your computer the next time it crashes, you'll see the panic
message. If the system is set to reboot automatically, numbers will start to flow by,
counting the number of MBs of memory being dumped to disk. Finally, the computer will
Fdisk runs, and you can watch
savecore copy the bad
memory dump to disk.
If your system doesn't reboot automatically, you'll need to enter two commands after the
panic, at the debugger prompt. Typing
panic will sync the disks, and
continue will start the reboot process.
You should now have a core dump file in /var/crash. Next time, we'll discuss what to do with this.
Michael W. Lucas
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