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For example, gefilte fish growth in restaurants menus week over week is 0.83%, corned beef is 0.87%, chopped liver is 0.25%, knishes is 0.78% and pastrami is 0.82%) — while hummus is 1.53%, tahini is 1.62% and zhoug is 3.72%, according to Tastewise. |
This story "Asian, Vegan, Or Keto: Seder Menus Are Leaning Trendy" was written by Michael Kaminer. |
These guidelines propose the unification of the campus environment by the simplification and consistent design of the landscape and the sensitive insertion of new structures that mediate between the existing architectural expressions. The overall concept is expressed as a "Vision Plan." Architecture and landscape each ... |
The campus architectural and landscape character should be unified. |
The architectural configuration and character of the Old Campus should be preserved. |
New public spaces on campus should be created and connected by clearly articulated pedestrian circulation paths. New buildings should create and frame new public spaces wherever possible. |
Existing barriers to unifying the campus, such as roads and parking, should be removed (or at least minimized) wherever possible. |
The unique naturalistic attributes of the Ravine intervening within the campus landscape should be preserved and enhanced. |
This plan envisions a unified campus image and character based on the historic expression of the Old Campus and the Sunken Garden Quadrangle, formulated on a new framework of clearly organized pedestrian pathways and public spaces. The disparate images portrayed by multiple existing campus precincts will be consolidate... |
North Campus consists of the area north of the Sunken Garden and Ravine, and stretches from the Wren Building to the north-south branch of the Dell between Cary Field and the Yates Hall/Fraternity Complex area. South Campus consists of the area south of the Sunken Garden and Ravine; it encompasses the area from the Wre... |
The diagrammatic campus plan in the figure illustrates the first step in the reunification of the campus. The figure illustrates two objectives: First, a hierarchy of pedestrian paths is defined, with the primary promenades originating north and south of the Sunken Garden, and extending west through the North Campus an... |
By establishing a circulation framework that links memorable public spaces, the campus' unique geography becomes a more understandable composition. In addition, transforming Landrum Drive to a pedestrian path allows the South Campus to blend into a single entity. |
The landscape elements of the two primary pedestrian promenades will define these paths as being the most important routes on campus. Other paths will be treated differently so as to communicate their secondary status. |
Vehicular circulation within the campus will be located at the western perimeter of the campus. Vehicular access into the core campus will be limited to service and emergency vehicles, with short-term parking and drop-off at specific locations. On-campus parking will be consolidated at three locations on the campus per... |
The primary public spaces on campus are located along the primary pedestrian promenades. These spaces include large public plazas, recreational fields and quieter academic quadrangles. |
All buildings located along the primary pedestrian promenades will "front" the routes. Service access will be available only at side or rear entrances. |
Buildings located adjacent to the primary campus civic spaces or along the campus boundary along Jamestown Road will contribute, in their configuration, to the definition of these edges. |
Rice Energy is testing the limits of the U.S. energy M&A thaw. The Appalachia-focused gas producer’s $2.7 billion swoop on Vantage Energy, which was planning to go public, follows a spate of transactions in oilier shale regions. Paying partly in shares will limit debt. Yet unlike rival EOG Resources, whose shares jumpe... |
Vantage owns around 85,000 acres adjoining the $4 billion Rice’s existing properties in the gassy Marcellus shale, along with some other assets. The buyer says that should help it boost production by some 70 percent next year. Paying more than a third of the total consideration in newly issued shares will limit the str... |
After factoring in the planned disposal of some gas infrastructure to an affiliate, analysts at Jefferies estimate Rice is paying around $10,600 per acre, a figure that is cheap compared with the roughly $12,400 per acre Vantage recently paid for some Marcellus property. |
Despite these benefits, the 7 percent drop in the value of Rice’s shares on Tuesday morning suggests investors have reservations. True, most oil and gas producers were trading lower on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia and Iran scotched hopes of an OPEC production cut. The dip in Rice’s share price may also reflect the roughl... |
It’s nevertheless a contrast to larger rival EOG, whose shares shot up nearly 7 percent when it announced a cash-and-stock deal to buy privately listed Yates Petroleum earlier this month – one of a string of recent transactions in Texas’s oil-rich Permian Basin. Coupled with the fact that Vantage’s private-equity owner... |
Surprise! After months in the oven, the soon-to-be-released new version of a major US Internet censorship bill didn't shrink in scope—it got much broader. Under the new proposal, search engines, Internet providers, credit card companies, and ad networks would all have cut off access to foreign "rogue sites"—and such co... |
As for sites which simply change their domain name slightly after being targeted, the new bill will let the government and private parties bring quick action against each new variation. |
Get ready for the "PROTECT IP Act." |
A source in Washington provided Ars with a detailed summary of the PROTECT IP Act, which takes its acronym from "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property." This beats the old acronym, COICA; who can be against protection? The actual legislation should be introduced shortl... |
The bill is an attempt to deal with foreign sites which can be difficult for US enforcement to reach, even when those sites explicitly target US citizens. |
The PROTECT IP Act makes a few major changes to last year's COICA legislation. First, it does provide a more limited definition of sites “dedicated to infringing activities.” The previous definition was criticized as being unworkably vague, and it could have put many legitimate sites at risk. |
But what the PROTECT IP Act gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. While the definition of targeted sites is tighter, the remedies against such sites get broader. COICA would have forced credit card companies like MasterCard and Visa to stop doing business with targeted sites, and it would have prevented ad... |
The PROTECT IP Act adds one more entity to this list: search engines. Last week, when the Department of Homeland Security leaned on Mozilla to remove a Firefox add-on making it simple to bypass domain name seizures, we wondered at the request. After all, the add-on only made it easier to do a simple Google search, and ... |
Turns out that's exactly what's being contemplated. According to the detailed summary of the PROTECT IP Act, this addition "responds to concerns raised that search engines are part of the ecosystem that directs Internet user traffic and therefore should be part of the solution." |
Rightsholders also score a major victory with the new legislation, which grants them a private right of action—something Google publicly trashed as a terrible idea earlier this year. Copyright and trademark holders don't have to badger the government into targeting sites under the new bill; they are allowed to seek cou... |
The emphasis here is on forcing intermediaries to get involved in policing such sites. Rightsholders have had difficulty suing the millions of end users engaged in infringement, and they have had difficulty suing the sites themselves when they are based abroad. But MasterCard and Google? Those are easy, US-based target... |
The PROTECT IP Act goes even further than forcing these intermediaries to take action after a court order; it actively encourages them to take unilateral action without any sort of court order at all. The bill summary makes clear that ad networks and payment processors will be protected if they “voluntarily cease doing... |
The bill also encourages everyone—domain name registries, search engines, payment processors, and ad networks—to cut off access to infringing sites that "endanger the public health." That is, online pharmacies (which are often hotbeds of counterfeiting). |
Given the strong opinions elicited by the earlier COICA, the expansion of powers here is a bit surprising, but the continued presence of the legislation is not. That's because, no matter how much power and money Congress devotes to intellectual property, rightsholders are back every couple of years for more—as the NET ... |
Americans tend to view Mexico as a Third World country, which is technically the case. Less appreciated is Mexico's rank as the 11th-biggest economy in the world. With an important economy so close to the US, it's no surprise that Mexico is a player in the global market for IT outsourcing services. |
"The talent pool is similar to the US for a much cheaper price, at least a third the price," says Gary Taylor, controller for KPMG International's Dallas Accounting Service Centre, which outsources accounting services and some programming to GECIS in Mexico. |
David Mard has a somewhat different view of Mexico's cost advantages. The director of IT at Mexico Express, a regional courier service in La Mirada, California, says he finds that on larger IT projects, outsourcing to Mexico saves 50 % to 60 % of the cost of doing the same project in the US But on smaller projects, the... |
"The price for an application developer in the US is $100 to $125 per hour and $20 to $30 per hour in Mexico, but it takes four times as many people do to the project in Mexico." When asked why, he says, "I don't know. I just know the larger the project, the more the cost savings." |
Lower costs are, of course, a driving force behind outsourcing to any country, but Mexico has some additional positives going for it. According to Stephen Lane, an analyst at Aberdeen Group , these include proximity to the US, a workforce that is well educated (though a small part of the total population) and a good lo... |
Location is one reason why Mexico Express outsourced to Mexico. Having programmers who know the geography and cities — and who understand the regional business culture — is a "huge advantage," says Mard. |
In addition, Mexico has three technology parks. Monterrey Technology Park, located 15 minutes from Monterrey's International Airport and 120 miles from the US border, is designed to house multinational companies. Apodaca Technology Park is also located near Monterrey, and Guadalajara Technology Park is located in the h... |
Mexico does have its limitations. Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO of outsourcing consultancy Everest Group in Dallas, notes that Mexicans with a good education have a lot of job options, including going to the US "People have struggled with maintaining staff there and expanding rapidly," he says. "That will reflect on the qua... |
Mard says the Mexican programmers he has worked with haven't been good at taking a project from beginning to end. They've been better at development than design and have required design specifications to be as detailed as possible. |
For example, he says he asked for a program to produce a printed customer receipt. What he got was a program that produced a receipt, but with prices rounded to a trillionth of a cent. When Mard said that didn't make sense, the response was that he hadn't specified that he wanted it otherwise. "If we are specific, they... |
Duran says you should always make a site visit to confirm what the outsourcer says. For example, an outsourcer might accurately say that the computer room has electric generator backup, but that doesn't mean the workstations have uninterruptible power supplies. As a result, in a blackout, such a facility would effectiv... |
Be sure to ask how much experience the management staff has, and talk to the production people to make sure they understand the processes they're working on. "In Mexico," Duran says, "you have a lot of small mom and pop shops that try to get into (business process outsourcing), so as a customer, you have to validate wh... |
While Mexico has its shortcomings, they haven't dissuaded Mard from outsourcing there. "I feel more comfortable doing business in Mexico," he says. "It's just a two-hour flight, and I know nothing about India," where he has also considered outsourcing. Overall, Mard says, "we're very, very satisfied." |
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting the judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations. |
The length of the prison term was not specified. "Serving a jail term is in Jason Rezaian's sentence but I cannot give details," judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei told a weekly news conference in Tehran, according to IRNA. |
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters he was aware of the IRNA report but could not independently confirm it. It was not immediately clear why Iran has not given details of the ruling against the 39-year-old Rezaian, who Iranian prosecutors accused of espionage. |
On Oct. 11, Ejei said Rezaian, the paper's Tehran bureau chief who has both U.S. and Iranian citizenship, had been convicted, without elaborating. He said then that Rezaian had 20 days to appeal against the verdict. |
The Washington Post said last month that the verdict, issued soon after Iran raised hopes of a thaw in its relations with the West by striking a nuclear deal with world powers including Washington, was "vague and puzzling". |
It said the vagueness of Ejei's remarks showed Rezaian's case was not just about espionage and that the reporter was a bargaining chip in a "larger game". The Post and his family denounced the espionage charges against Rezaian as absurd. |
Influential parliament speaker Ali Larijani hinted in September at the possibility that Rezaian could be freed in exchange for Iranian prisoners in the United States, but officials then played down the possibility of such a swap. |
Two other U.S. citizens - Christian pastor Saeed Adedini and Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant - also are jailed in Iran. Robert Levinson, a private American investigator, disappeared there in 2007. |
Among the charges, Rezaian was accused of "collaborating with hostile governments" and disseminating "propaganda against the establishment", according to a statement from Rezaian's attorney, the Washington Post reported in April. |
In the indictment, Iranian authorities said Rezaian had written to U.S. President Barack Obama and called it an example of contacting a "hostile government", the Post said. |
Rezaian was arrested in July 2014. His brother said on Oct. 13 that Rezaian had heard of his conviction on Iranian state TV and was depressed and angry about being deprived of information about his case. |
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma lawmakers are considering legislation that would regulate how some license plate information is retained and distributed. |
The proposal aims to establish guidelines for the automated license plate readers that capture photos of vehicles entering the state. |
The bill requires that individual data collected by the Corporation Commission be exempt from the Open Records Act, which grants citizens unrestricted access to public records. Other agencies would be allowed to use the information for law enforcement and regulatory activities. |
The measure would allow the collected data to be published and released, but it would not authorize revealing the activities or identifying specific vehicles or carriers. |
The Oklahoman reports the House Transportation Committee passed the proposal Wednesday. Rep. Roger Ford’s sponsored bill can now be heard on the House floor. |
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KABANKALAN CITY - Universal Robina Corp. is investing P5 billion in its three mills in Negros Island this year to produce, not only sugar, but power and fuel to cushion the impact of the country’s full integration into the Asean Free Trade Area by 2015. |
Lance Gokongwei, URC president and chief executive officer, said this yesterday when he led the time capsule laying ceremony for a 46 MW biomass fired power plant at URC’s Southern Negros Development Corp. site here that will cost P2.5 billion, and will be exporting electricity to the national grid soon. |
URC is supporting the government’s programs to achieve energy self sufficiency and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, by utilizing renewable energy resources that promote health safety and the protection of environment, he said. |
KABANKALAN CITY -- Energy Assistant Secretary Daniel Ariaso Sr. said here yesterday that the 46 MW biomass fired power plant being built by Universal Robina Corp. at its Southern Negros Development Corp. site will soften the impact of an impending power shortage in Negros Occidental. |
Ariaso, who joined the time capsule laying ceremony for the plant, said, that to sustainably support the economic activities of Negros Occidental, the energy sector must be able to harness natural resources that will be able to address the current power demands. |
“This biomass plant is an example of how the energy sector adapted to the economic landscape of the region,” he added. |
The Sandiganbayan Fourth Division has resolved to grant Bacolod Mayor Monico Puentevella’s “Motion for Leave of Court to Travel Abroad” dated March 11 subject to several conditions, among them that he will allow himself to be conditionally arraigned on March 25. |
Puentevella was also required to deposit with the Court P90,000 in cash as travel bond to guarantee faithful compliance with the terms and conditions imposed on him, based on the resolution signed by Justices Gregory Ong, Jose Hernandez and Maria Cristina Cornejo. |
The Court will issue a separate final resolution authorizing Puentevella’s travel after he has complied with the requirements in items 1 and 2, by allowing himself to be conditionally arraigned on March 25 and by depositing the travel bond. |
Florida Senator and Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio said Friday afternoon that Republicans are guilty of “harsh” and sometimes “intolerable” rhetoric regarding immigration and said he supported a bipartisan solution for undocumented students, the so called DREAMers. |
During a speech at the Hispanic Leadership Network Conference in Miami, the Republican senator laid out a new immigration vision he said would work. He seemed to soften his stance on the DREAM Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for college students and those who enroll in the military – but he stopped sh... |
There is broad support in America that for those people brought here at a very young age by their parents, through no fault of their own, who have grown up here their entire lives and now want to serve in the military or are high academic achievers and want to go to school and contribute to Americas future…we should fi... |
Rubio, who is reportedly on the short list as a possible vice presidential pick for the future Republican Presidential nominee, gave an at times emotional and impassioned speech on immigration – an issue he regarded as “deeply personal” for millions of Americans. |
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“It’s impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system,” he told the crowd at the conference, hosted by the center right advocacy group HLN. |
Rubio specifically called out the left and the right for using immigration as a political divisive tool that rewards all politicians. |
“For those of us who come from the conservative movement, we must admit that there are those among us who have used rhetoric that is harsh and intolerable, inexcusable, and we must admit, myself included, that sometimes we’ve been too slow in condemning that language for what it is,” Rubio said. |
Rubio’s call for rhetoric change is fresh off of blasting GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich, who aired an ad in the Cuban-American senator’s home state calling Mitt Romney, his rival in the GOP primary, “anti-immigrant.” Rubio has said he was not happy with the remark. |
A popular politician who is regarded as the future of the Republican Party, Rubio’s Miami speech was interrupted on Friday by DREAM Act protestors who managed to make their way into the crowd. As he spoke of immigration as a “gateway issue,” three young men stood up and booed him. |
Rubio called the men brave and repeatedly asked for them to stay to hear him out. But they were abruptly led out of the ballroom by hotel security. |
“His anti-immigrant views are hurting the immigrant community,” said one of the males, who identified himself as a ‘concerned citizens’ and undocumented student while being ushered out of the Doral Resort and Spa. |
“He does not support the DREAM Act,” another said to Fox News Latino. |
Rubio referenced undocumented students in his speech but did not reference the DREAM Act specifically. |
Rubio’s words and actions carry weight in the party. The 40-year-old Cuban American’s endorsement would be a big get for any of the presidential contenders ahead of the Tuesday primary – he has ties to both Romney and Gingrich, and speculation remains that he could end up the vice presidential nominee. |
GOP candidates wanting to win Florida clearly do not want to disappoint Rubio. |
Rubio ended his speech talking about his family’s immigrant experience - his father’s travels from Cuba to New York to California. He made reference to the controversy that came about after it was discovered he had given the wrong dates for when his parents had left Cuba. He called the experience a “blessing in disguis... |
Yet, even as he called for a softer tone on immigration, Rubio reiterated his emphasis for bi-partisan support for the need for a modernized system, a new Visa program, E-Verify, tougher border security and a functional guest worker program. |
Also known as calamansi, the calamondin (Citrus x citrofortunella mitis) tree develops acidic fruits best used in sauces, drinks and seafood dishes. Although it may be grown as a standard size citrus tree, dwarf rootstocks limit the calamondin's height to a maximum of 12 feet tall. Harvesting the citrus fruit at the ri... |
A properly located dwarf calamondin tree produces its first harvestable crop at two years old. By this point, its root system has had time to establish itself in the soil for the best nutrient and water uptake. However, this timing varies widely if environmental conditions are not ideal. For example, a pot-bound tree g... |
Unlike other citrus cultivars, calamondin trees may be harvested all year long with good soil and climate conditions. Because there is no specific time period for harvesting, using your sense of touch to verify harvest time is a practical solution. Any squishy or engorged fruits need to be avoided, as they may be overr... |
A fully orange calamondin tends to be too ripe, so look for half-ripe colors ranging from yellow to yellow-orange. These lightly colored, firm fruits are much more tasty than their overripe, orange neighbors. When you remove the fruits, it is best to cut them from the tree rather than pulling them. Any torn skin across... |
Because calamondins can take up to a year to fully ripen on the tree branches, you may want to take a taste test with one of the fruits. As you open the calamondin, observe the skin's thickness; a ripe fruit has a thin skin. The fruit's taste and smell should not be pungent; any strong scent and taste means that the fr... |
Rodriguez, Amy. "When to Harvest a Calamondin Dwarf Tree." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/harvest-calamondin-dwarf-tree-64175.html. Accessed 17 April 2019. |
A suicide bomber opened fire on Turkish police and then blew himself up during their raid on a suspected Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hideout near the border with Syria, leaving five police officers wounded. The incident occurred in northern Turkey as G-20 leaders gathered elsewhere in the country for a ... |
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