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Producing large onions depends on several factors. |
Producing large onion heads, or bulbs, depends on both the variety of onion and proper care. Not all varieties produce bulbs. Green onion varieties, for example, may produce plenty of flavorful foliage for harvest as scallions, but the bulbs are small. Onions produce large heads in response to the hours sunlight they g... |
Loosen the soil with a hoe in a bed that gets full sun and has well-draining soil. Do this in spring after the soil dries and the average temperature is above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Newly planted onions tolerate light freezes and require cooler temperatures to initiate early growth so they can produce large heads. |
Plant onion sets 1 inch deep. Transplant indoor-started seedlings at the same depth they were at previously. Space both sets and seedlings three inches apart in the row so the bulbs have room to fully form. |
Water the onions with 1 to 2 inches of water per week to help increase head size. Too much water can cause the plants to rot, while too little stresses the onions and may cause the foliage to die back before full bulb formation. |
Apply a nitrogen-rich fertilizer halfway through the growing season to further bulb formation. Apply the fertilizer at the package's recommended rate for root or vegetable plants. |
Reduce watering by one-half once the foliage begins to yellow. Harvest the onions only after the yellowing foliage begins to fall over. |
Select an onion variety that produces large heads in your area. Plant long-day onion varieties in areas that receive 12 hours of sunlight in midsummer, or intermediate-day varieties in areas that receive 10 to 12 hours of sun in midsummer. |
A thick layer of mulch applied over the onions protects the bulbs from sunlight and prevents the soil from drying too quickly. |
Harrington, Jenny. "How to Grow Good Onion Heads." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-good-onion-heads-32692.html. Accessed 25 April 2019. |
Match bridges gap in both teams' seasons between end of Rugby Championships, which New Zealand won for the second straight year, and the All Blacks and Wallabies tours to Japan, Britain and Europe. |
New Zealand flyhalf Aaron Cruden scored one try, made another and kicked 18 points, as New Zealand beat Australia 41-33 in the final Bledisloe Cup rugby test Saturday. |
Cruden's first shot at goal, from more than 50 meters at Dunedin's indoor stadium, was a disaster, barely reaching the height of the crossbar and falling well short of the posts. He shrugged off that embarrassment to kick seven of his next nine attempts, as New Zealand beat Australia for the third time this season and ... |
Cruden contributed a pin-point crossfield kick to create a try for flanker Sam Cane, then scored a try of his own as New Zealand opened a 30-19 lead by halftime. Winger Julian Savea and captain Kieran Read also touched down for the All Blacks, while Adam Ashley-Cooper, Matt Toomua and Tevita Kuridrani scored tries for ... |
Wallabies flyhalf Quade Cooper, treated as a pantomime villain by New Zealand crowds who boo his every action, restored himself a little in their affections with one of his best performances against the All Blacks. |
Cooper kicked three penalties, three conversions and a drop goal for 18 points, defended stoutly and provided the pass that led to Ashley-Cooper's try just before halftime. |
Toomua and Kuridrani both scored their first test tries for Australia, which outscored New Zealand by two tries to one in the second half and played with both spirit and enterprise. |
Saturday's match bridged a gap in both teams' seasons between the end of the Rugby Championships, which New Zealand won for the second straight year, and the All Blacks and Wallabies tours to Japan, Britain and Europe. |
New Zealand had already won the three-test Bledisloe Cup series by beating the Wallabies twice during the Rugby Championships and, with the impending tours and players keen to avoid injury, the defensive intensity of Saturday's match was low. The five tries and 67 points scored gave the match the flavor of a festival g... |
New Zealand remained unbeaten in 2014, ahead of a tour on which it will play tests against Japan, France, England and Ireland. |
Operations Manager Carl Kuttel has just completed his 16th year with Virginia City Tours and has heard enough “quaint questions” to last a lifetime. |
“That’s what we’re here for,” Kuttel said. “To entertain and educate the thousands of passengers who ride the trolley and tram each year. We are, in essence, history on wheels. |
Virginia City Tours made its first round trip on May 19, 1975, when owner and Reno resident Rod Van Epps started the tours at the north end of town next to the shooting gallery. In 1976, Paul Lundgren of Reno bought out Van Epps and moved the operation to the Delta parking lot in 1978, where it still operates. |
At the time, the only piece of equipment the company owned was a 43-passenger tram pulled by a 1974 Ford three-cylinder diesel tractor. Dubbed “The Green Monster,” the work horse has been the backbone of Virginia City Tours for 27 years — and shows no sign of ever giving up. |
Lundgren designed and helped build the first trolley in 1979, when it joined forces with the tram for year-round operations. The second trolley was purchased in 1997, and the third in 2000. |
The business has always been in the Lundgren family. When Paul Lundgren died, his widow, Lucy, continued the tours. |
Mayfield, in addition to driving, became manager of the company’s day-to-day operations, a position he held for several years in the 1980s. In 1987, Lucy Lundgren’s son-in-law, Carl Kuttel, joined the company. Mayfield eventually cut back on his driving hours to allow time to pursue other interests. Kuttel became manag... |
The company operates under stringent guidelines set down by the Public Safety Commission. License, permits, insurance, taxes, payroll and maintenance take a big bite out of the revenues generated. |
This winter, the tractor will get some TLC at the Virginia City Station, where owner and mechanic Bob Reutzel will get it ready to begin its 28th season in the spring. |
More than just history on wheels, the company and its drivers are goodwill ambassadors for the Comstock. But if you take the tour, it’s recommended that you keep the “quaint questions” to a minimum. |
Editor’s note: Chic Di Francia, of Virginia City, was the unemployed printer and has many fond memories about the company he was employed with for five years. |
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) marked the inauguration of an infrastructure improvement project today, unveiling the project's foundation stone in the Palestine refugee camp of Ein el Hilweh, Saida. |
The ceremony was attended by the Head of the Cooperation Section of the EU Delegation to Lebanon, Diego Escalona-Paturel, and the Deputy Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, John Marks. Also present were the representative of the Embassy of Palestine to Lebanon, Ramzi Mansour; the representative of the Lebanese-Palest... |
The purpose of the EU-funded project is to improve the housing, hygiene and health conditions of the most vulnerable Palestine refugees in Lebanon through the rehabilitation of camp infrastructure. The project includes the rehabilitation and upgrading of the existing infrastructure in the south district of Ein el Hilwe... |
This intervention is part of the overall infrastructure rehabilitation of Ein El Hilweh camp. The project was divided into four packages to ease fundraising. UNRWA was able to secure complete funding, with the EU supporting two of the rehabilitation packages. |
Marking the occasion, Mr. Escalona-Paturel said: "We at the European Union strongly believe that Palestinian refugees have the right to live in a decent and safe environment with access to all social services.” He added, "Human development is possible only when social conditions and dignity for all are respected, thus ... |
The generous contribution of EUR 4.4 million (US$ 5.9 million) from the European Union, under the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI), will enable UNRWA to not only upgrade the infrastructure systems in the south district of Ein el Hilweh camp, but also to rehabilitate the dilapidated shelters of a... |
The European Union is one of the leading UNRWA donors and has a long history of supporting the Agency through its regular budget, emergency appeals and projects. In 2013, the European Commission alone provided EUR 80 million (US$ 107.4 million) to the UNRWA General Fund, and around EUR 40 million (US$ 53.7 million) spe... |
BRIDGEPORT - A higher power may have been at work at the Fairfield County Courthouse Wednesday or more likely, just bad mechanics. |
Three weeks after rival families exploded in a melee in the Golden Hill Street courthouse during a murder arraignment, the combatants were in full force at the Main Street court. |
Judicial marshals were at the ready. |
And then the elevators broke down. |
More than 100 people, many who had been involved in the last trouble, were left stranded in the courthouse lobby while a dozen were stuck for more than 30 minutes crammed together in one of the elevators before firefighters arrived. One woman was taken to the hospital. |
Jayvell Washington, who sparked the court melee with his arrest for the Jan. 26 murder of 50-year-old Eugene Rogers, appeared disappointed as he was brought into the courtroom and looked to the gallery to see a meager group. |
Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin granted Washington’s lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Jared Milbrandt, a continuance to March 5. |
“For the record, for the record, I reserve my rights,” Washington yelled as he was led away. |
Washington is facing charges of murder, criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a pistol without a permit. |
Washington and members of the Rogers family have been engaged in a violent series of confrontations since the summer of 2017, according to police. |
In one incident, Mayor Joe Ganim was standing outside the Rogers family home after a shooting when more shots rang out, although he was not hurt nor apparently the intended target, police said. |
On July 1, 2017, Chaz Rogers was shot to death on Stratford Avenue. His older brother, Hassan “Boobie” Rogers, was later arrested for allegedly shooting at a friend of Washington’s whom he blamed for killing his brother. |
Then on July 23, 2017, Eugene Rogers was walking on Trumbull Avenue when, police said, he was shot twice in the abdomen. He survived that shooting. Washington, who had served seven years in prison for a 1998 manslaughter conviction, was charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault, illegal use of a firearm and c... |
Shortly after 9 a.m. on Jan. 26, police said officers were dispatched by the Bridgeport Police Department’s Shot Spotter system to the Citgo gas station and Pitt Stop convenience store on Reservoir Avenue. |
When officers got there, they found Eugene Rogers lying on the ground, motionless, police said. He was bleeding from a bullet wound in his head, and police said he had a silver and black gun in his left hand. |
Police said the gas station’s video surveillance showed Washington parked in a Mini Cooper at the gas station when he was approached by Rogers. Rogers began to pull a handgun from the pocket of his hooded sweatshirt, police said, when Washington drew first and fired, then drove off. |
Police said they determined that Washington was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet as a result of the conditions of his bond. They said detectives traced him to Fairview Avenue, where they arrested him in front of his girlfriend’s home. |
Police said that when asked if he knew why detectives were there, Washington replied, “Yeah,” and placed his hands behind his back. |
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The National Labor Relations Board is joining the fight by a group of engineers who want to form a union at a small San Francisco software firm. |
The NLRB issued a complaint on Tuesday against Lanetix, alleging that the company violated federal labor laws when it fired 14 engineers in January after they filed papers to unionize. The complaint also seeks an injunction to reinstate the terminated workers with back pay. |
It's both a rare case of software engineers seeking to organize, and an even rarer instance of the government rising to their defense. White-collar tech workers have gained attention in recent months for coordinated campaigns against their employers’ business practices, but engineers almost never unionize in Silicon Va... |
Contractors and service workers for tech companies, who often are employed by outsourcing firms, have fought for years to unionize. Shuttle-bus drivers and food-service workers have made some progress. Earlier this month, after five years of organizing, security officers for companies including Facebook, Google, and Ge... |
The tension at Lanetix began in mid-November, when the company fired a highly respected female engineer who had been advocating for better pay and leave policies on behalf of her coworkers, according to interviews with two fired engineers and a copy of the complaint obtained by WIRED. The same day, the complaint says t... |
In mid-January, after most of the unit signed authorization cards to be represented by the union, Lanetix was informed and the union filed papers with the NLRB. Ten days later, the engineers were fired. |
Lanetix develops cloud-based software for transportation and logistics and has raised at least $18 million in funding from Salesforce Ventures and others. Lanetix and Salesforce declined to comment. |
Bjorn Westergard, one of the fired Lanetix engineers leading the charge to unionize, says that small concessions by management would have easily deflated their efforts. The tipping point came in January, when management offered additional stock to a handful of high-level male engineers, including Westergard. Employees ... |
“It became increasingly clear that their strategy was divide and conquer—flatter a handful of us in the hopes that we would go along with their plans, and not put up a fight when they fired half of our co-workers,” Westergard adds. |
The NLRB’s complaint affirms allegations that the union filed in January. Lanetix employees worked with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild because most of the engineers were in the Virginia office. Cet Parks, the guild’s executive director, says the complaint is a rare victory. “It is hard to get the NLRB to pursue a ... |
The tech industry has been inhospitable to labor unions since before the microchip was invented. To ward off efforts from labor unions in San Francisco in 1939, Eitel McCullough, which made vacuum tubes for radar and broadcast uses, added an on-site cafeteria and medical clinic, and launched a profit-sharing program. T... |
The Lanetix engineer who was fired in November, who requested anonymity, told WIRED she was stunned by the termination because Lanetix’s CEO had solicited her opinions on referral bonuses and paid leave, including asking her to announce the improved policy at a company all-hands. Roughly five months before she was fire... |
Labor groups hoping to make inroads in the tech industry have tried to draw attention to the Lanetix engineers. In February, Tech Workers Coalition and Tech Action Working Group, part of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, issued a statement of solidarity with the fired engineers. In March, 30 supporter... |
Will Luckman, cofounder of Tech Action, said he hoped the action would pressure the NLRB and increase awareness of nascent attempts to unionize within the tech industry. Despite their futuristic sheen, tech companies “actually operate like traditional industrialists and will go through old fashioned methods of suppress... |
A few days ago we hit on the subject that the iPad 2 could get Thunderbolt, which was known as Light Peak. More evidence seems to point towards this rumors beings true, so what are the pros and cons of having this latest connection port on Apple’s 2nd-generation tablet device in 2011? |
First of all we thought you might need a little recap about what Thunderbolt is. This is a new connection type that could eventually replace all of the others, such as USB and Ethernet. We know that USB 3.0 will come along soon, but Thunderbolt from Intel is said to be twice as fast. |
With the latest connection type being included in the new MacBook Pro towards the end of last week, we can be certain that it will not be long before Apple introduce it to some of their other devices, and the iPad 2 looks set to be that next device. We will learn more on this during Apple’s media event on March 2nd at ... |
There are a few pros when it comes to Thunderbolt being included on the new iPad design, one is that you cold eventually connect more devices into the tablet — once more peripherals become available. SlashGear picks up on a good point, when they suggest that the use of this new port could allow for faster synchronizati... |
As with all things, there are always cons and Thunderbolt is no different. One of the major issues, and why Stephen Foskett believes that we will not see it on the iPad 2 is because the peripheral will need to be like a computer on the inside. The other downside is expected to come from high power consumption, as we re... |
We have to remember that this is all guesswork for now, but at least we do not have too wait long for Apple to answer all of our questions. |
Do you think the iPad 2 needs Thunderbolt? |
Thunderbolt won't be replacing USB anytime soon, if ever. |
The new iPad 2 is going to be sweet! I just Know it will! |
Don't discount the possibility that a Thunderbolt interface could supply power to the iPad, as opposed to presenting a power draw. In fact, 10 Watts will fit the bill quite pleasantly. Wouldn't you love to use the iPad as a portable secondary monitor for any Thunderbolt-enabled computer? You can bet that I'd buy one. |
Comment posted from my iPad. |
The iPad and iPhone and iPod and AppleTV could all be Thunderbird peripherals that sync with the new laptops very quickly. |
"The List" is nearly 500 names long, and growing rapidly. It might have started out as a light-hearted jab, but it has quickly become a flashpoint of the building fury in the open source software community toward Microsoft and its recent claim of patent infringements. |
The list was started by Digital Tipping Point, an online Web site dedicated to the open source movement. It blogs about open source and is producing a number of films about how open source "will empower average people to create an immense wave of new literature, art, and science," according to the Web site. |
Just after midnight on May 20, a post went up on the wiki, or informational, page of the Web site. The author, Christian Einfeldt, is also the producer of the video project. He started the list, he stated, "to be a place where people would like to join together to invite a Microsoft patent infringement lawsuit." The pa... |
As of Tuesday afternoon at 6:20 p.m. ET, the list was 494 names long, and new names were being added almost every minute. It's clear that a very sensitive nerve has been struck in the Linux and open source community, and whether Microsoft can heal the damage may be an important factor in its stated desire to build brid... |
The impetus for the list was the now-famous Fortune magazine article from May 14 in which Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and Horacio Gutierrez, vice president of intellectual property and licensing, claimed that Linux and other open source software infringe on 235 Microsoft patents. |
Microsoft has since backed away from those comments to a degree: Bill Hilf, general manager of platform strategy and director of Microsoft's work with open source projects, said, "We have no plans to litigate" in an interview with IDG News Service. "Our strategy from everyone in the company -- from [Steve] Ballmer to B... |
However, "We have no plans to litigate" is not the same as "We will not litigate," and those statements have hit the open source community like a hydrogen bomb. Einfeldt, an attorney by trade, stated his own theories on why Microsoft has chosen this tack: "Some people have asserted that Microsoft is making these threat... |
Whatever the reason, anger at Microsoft from the free software populace appears to be at an all-time peak, highlighted by the "Sue me" list. It even caught Einfeldt off guard. "I am surprised. I did not anticipate this level of reaction. I'm very happy that it does seem to have struck a chord with the free, open source... |
Linux developer Linus Torvalds, an icon of that community, also entered the fray, and took aim at Microsoft. Torvalds stated publicly that "it's certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does." However correct that statement, it is true that Microsoft has, so far, declined to give specifics... |
Andy Updegrove, a noted patent attorney who also represents the Linux Foundation and sits on its board of directors, asked some of those questions on his blog: "What does one make of the fact that Microsoft wants royalties, but doesn't want to sue anyone to get them? And if Microsoft really believes that it has so many... |
A sampling of the posts on the list gives a taste of the anger directed at Microsoft, and the international flavor of the open source community (note that these comments are unedited). From Italy: "I used Suse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Sabayon, Mandrake (then Mandriva) and I've installed Edubuntu on hundreds of PC's. I will us... |
From the United States: "Now that I've seen what Vista has to offer I'm so glad I moved back to open source, so sue me..Also, Open Office is on these same machines as well. Its a fine product that works perfectly & doesn't cost $300." |
From Canada: "PLEASE Sue me and make sure you mention which patents you're suing about, starting with the newest patent. You're suing your former customers, it's one more step to the end. DO it NOW Microsoft, just DO IT!" |
Einfeldt says he doesn't share these emotions, and has no axe to grind. He also says that he's not worried about being hauled into court. "I'm personally not afraid. I have no emotion regarding this; I'm not a Microsoft hater. Microsoft has produced some very popular software, and I have used Microsoft software in the ... |
But that doesn't mean he thinks Microsoft is in the right, and he's joined by hundreds of others on the list. He believes the reason the list has taken off is because the stakes are so high. The list, he says, "addresses a very serious issue. Billions of dollars are at stake, and people's freedom is at stake -- people'... |
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