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Tonkatsu Ginza Bairin in Waikiki

Kurobuta Pork Loin Katsu While ramen shops from Japan continue to spring up all over Honolulu, Tonkatsu specialty restaurants have yet to catch on here. McCully Shopping Center used to have one (I can’t recall the name), but that was short lived, and unfortunately I never made it there in time to try it before they closed up. Currently there are only two specialty restaurants that I’m aware of. That would be Cafe Imperial Tonkatsu House, located on Kapiolani boulevard, and what we have here read

The Building Blocks of a Super Healthy Diet (with a sample meal plan)

Most people know how to eat healthy, and know that they should — it’s just that when it comes down to implementing this knowledge, there’s a bridge that needs to be crossed from knowledge to action. How do you actually eat healthy, instead of just knowing that you should eat healthy? Create a meal plan, constructed with super healthy foods that you enjoy eating. Now, there are three parts of that solution, if you look closely, and all three parts are equally important: Create a meal plan. W read

Vegetarian Envy

Friends, I am not a vegetarian but I hold them in the highest regard. I wish I possessed the willpower and unerring commitment to better health, saving the planet and/or animal rights exhibited by most vegetarians. With only a few exceptions (and I shall not name names), my vegetarian pals are svelte, disciplined not only the table but in life as well, and concerned with the well-being of the planet and her inhabitants. These are good people and sometimes I wonder if their goodness is a consequ read

Astor Place to Get Slightly Less Life-Threatening

Photo: Getty Images Chelsea: Thugs are overturning Vespas here! In Kensington, Brooklyn, they're slashing tires! Up in Inwood, they're muggin', gang bangin' and wielding bats! Scared, barely audible voice: What...the hell...is happening...in our city?!? [Curbed] Clinton Hill: People queued up at Brown Memorial Church this weekend to turn in their guns for $200 a pop (oops!), part of a city program to get guns off the streets. Five Brooklyn churches collected 687 guns. That's pretty cool. Send read

Woman Gives Birth To Third Child While Visiting Sesame Place

A mother who took her two children to Sesame Place Saturday gave birth to her third child in a bathroom stall. read

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Will Google’s Knol become the next Wikipedia?

Google has launched its Wikipedia-killer to the world. Will they succeed? Last week Google made its new site, Knol, open to all the world. Until then only beta-testers had been able to read and contribute. Knol lets anyone write an article about any topic of interest. Then readers may make comments and rate the article. They may also may suggest addition and rewrites, but the first author retains control of the text. The author has the last word It is the empowerment of the first author read

WTS Consulting - CRM with Tigerpaw

We’re proud to announce that we’ve put most of the finishing touches on a new partnership with Orangejack LLC.  Williams Technology Solutions (WTS) is based near Greenville, SC and has served clients all across North America. Williams Technology Solutions (WTS) is a professional management consulting partner that provides your business with the computer tools necessary to increase your productivity.  We help you determine your business management needs, offer solutions, installation, training, read

Cool Cat Teacher's Take on Cuil's New Search Engine

Cuil launches today from some disenfranchised Google Employees, according to the Associated Press. In the article, founder Anna Patterson says that Google has looked virtually unchanged for the last 10 years and talks about the magazine like spread of the search. After I searched for "flat classroom" I got this page that said it had "14,431 results." When I search Google, this is my result of over 4 million results. When I compare the two -- the top two on Google are actually from the projec read

Cuil launches: Ex-Googlers take a whack at idea-based search

New search engine Cuil (pronounced "cool") launched last night, the brainchild of ex-Google employees. From the info page, Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page's coherency. Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want read

Ex-Googlers launch new search engine

A new search engine has been launched by former Google and IBM engineers, claiming to have the largest index of sites on the web. read