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Advice on 2nd year Honeycrisp please!
Hello. I'm in Central Kentucky and I planted my very first 3 apple trees last Spring (dwarf supreme from Stark Bros - Honeycrisp, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith) and besides having to replace the GS (free from Stark due to heading cut not healing well and rotting) they have done well. I have pruned them back to what I think will be good scaffold branches as I think I was supposed to do (again, very new at this!) and I've noticed what I believe are fruit spurs on the Honeycrisp already. My question is, if it blooms and tries to grow apples this young, should I let it? Or should I pinch off the blooms or prune off the spurs altogether? Obviously, I would love to get a few apples this soon, but would it be bad for the tree overall? I've attached a picture of the tree right now after pruning, overall only about 4' tall. I'll add another post of a closer image of what I believe are the spurs. Thanks in advance for any advice!
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I would be surprised if you get any fruits from your Honeycrisp this year. Mine is dwarf from Stark Bros and has not grown much since it was planted about three years ago. Honeycrisp is a slow growing tree and I hope that your tree is either semi dwarf or standard. I got at least one flower on mine last year but no fruits. I believe that it was in bloom at the same time as my GoldRush, which gave me lots of fruits. I'll leave it for the more experienced growers to give you a better advice but I am considering top working my Honeycrisp tree.
Mine is dwarf also. It seemed to put on quite a bit of growth this past year, probably close to 2' in height, although not near what the Golden Delicious did. Most of the growth was on vigorous shoots with narrow crotch angles that would've been competing with my central leader, so they had to go. I headed off the central leader to try to encourage more scaffold branches to shoot out with more desirable crotch angles. We'll see, I suppose. If yours had tried to produce fruit that young would you have let it? Have you let other varieties fruit this young? Does it have any detrimental effect? As you can tell, I am trying to remain optimistic despite the experience you have had with this tree.
I would discourage you from allowing the tree to fruit this year. It is better for a young tree to use its energy for more growth. Usually, when a tree starts to produce fruit, this slows its growth. I would not cut the fruit spurs. If any fruits are developed, I'll just cut them once they can be seen. I would also think that the fruit may drop on its own as the tree many not be ready for any fruits this year. Again, I am not an expert and there are others on this forum who can give you a better advice.
Those do kind of look like fruit spurs. If I were you, I would leave all the spurs alone, but then right after the fruit begins to grow (assuming some does), I would remove all but one or two fruits. Any fruiting will stunt the growth of your tree somewhat, but the tree should be able to handle one or two just so you can get a taste this year. In subsequent years you can allow a few more to grow, but don't leave them all on or it will stunt the tree. I would also tip back the top of the tree, removing about half of the last season's growth -- this will help the tree to branch out more. Honeycrisp likes to grow upwards more than outwards so the top needs to be cut back every winter until the branches are well established -- this might take a good 3 years or so.
Lisa, I would not recommend taking any more off the top. You've done a nice job of drop crotch pruning to a central leader. Apple trees don't need excessive pruning. Wait until you get more lateral branches up on the top, then drop crotch prune to a central leader, again, if you feel you need to take the height down. Yes, those are fruiting spurs, but as Andrew mentioned, you probably won't get any fruit this season. You might get blooms, but probably will not get fruit set. If you do, you can always remove most of the fruit and let the tree gain another year's growth and root development.
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How about removing the central leader and pruning the tree to grow as open center? I would assume that this will allow for more lateral growth. Lisa, I wonder how thick is the trunk of the tree? Would the trunk get thicker faster if the tree is pruned vase shape?
Actually, I like what you did with the pruning, ...that's how I do it with central leader, I'm no pro but you did fine I think, taking that nasty crutch out is marvelous!
I would let them flower and set fruit, if any? They might abort, but when marble size, pinch, or cut all except one per cluster.
Even a dwarf needs to be at least an inch in diameter before you should let it produce a single fruit in my opinion. I have tons of experience, but unfortunately not with fully dwarfing rootstock (M9). I manage a lot of M26, however, which are on the vigorous side of dwarf and they can runt out if they are allowed to produce when still very small.
I wouldn't remove the fruit- I'd remove the flowers.
Where you top, which isn't usually necessary with a fully dwarfing tree as I understand it, is where you want to produce your second tier of branches. I'd say 2' above last branch on first tier. However this kind of structure isn't needed for dwarfs and reading commercial guidelines it seems best method is only removing oversized branches- more than half the diameter of trunk at point of attachment. Very little pruning is needed for dwarfs and almost none while training. Any pruning should be done in summer with the thumb and finger to steer growth without setting tree back.


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I have a M2 with a C9 cat I just bought a couple months ago and am thinking of adding a oil bypass system and switching to a synthetic oil. Is anyone using the Amsoil bypass system and oil, and what are your thoughts on it. Or is there a better set up out there?
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Bob Caffee has done huge amounts of research on bypass systems and is very very knowledgeable on them and a really sharp guy on tech stuff. You should try to talk to him about them. Good luck.
It's okay if you disagree. I can't force you to be correct.
I'd like to hear what Bob has to say.
I had an OP1 on my N-14 and ran Shell Syn.
With 35,000 mile oil change intervals on the new truck, I see less incentive.
I think Bob's Detroit may have 50,000 interval, although I'm not sure.
Bob and I operate very similar operations. Very light loads. Neither of us idle. He's at 365 or 370hp and I'm at a needless 500 hp. Every Volvo rep I've talked to says do not turn it down ( which confuses me.)OOIDA # 463 ( Yeah, an old fart ). Expediting....It beats working for a living
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when it comes to By-Pass, which ever you choose is WAY better then nothing.
you will have a very good ROI.
i have the OPS1 on the Glider Kit ,and the FS2500 (filtration solutions) on the HINO.
my personal preference is the 2500 . (i can explain if needed)
and i'd defiantly stay away from the Gulf cost filters.
when it comes to choosing Synthetic ,the one thing to consider is how much oil dose your motor burn naturally. in my case i need to add a gallon about every 11,000 mil which makes the switch to synthetic VERY expensive.
the problem that you are going to have with AMSoil is availability. AMS do not sale direct, not even via their website. IF you can find a dealer that will sale you direct, and if he can ship it to your home, or a place you go through often, then you good to go. it's not like you are going to find it in a truck stop. also many dealers upping up the price. AMS oil dose gives discounts for bulks.
also AMS have a few synt. grades, you will have to consult a dealer to choose the one that will work better for your motor and your operations.
just a bit logistics to solve.
in a solo Expedite truck i do not see the cost benefits of switching to Synt. oil. how many mil a year do you run?.Moose.
Holding a $ is holding a fast depreciated asset.
I choose the Shell Syn because it's in every Walmart. And reasonably priced. All Walmarts do not charge the same price btw.
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I believe when you switch to syn oil it is common to see an increase in consumption at first. Don't let it alarm you, but always have a gallon available.
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The ams oil system is the easiest to use and least likely to leak. I have both a amsoil and a gulf coast.
If you do heavy haul I would reccomed the gulf coast be causeit significantly increases your oil volume.
Most of you would be best served by the ams oil system. Its just a simple spin on filter, no leaks no spillage very simple. Also you change it when the bottom third stays cooler than the top so there's no guessing on when to change it.
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Runs cooler ? Spreads the contaniments out. 1x of zinc is 1% in 10 gallons of oil, 3/4% in 12.5 gallons of oil.
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Runs cooler is it, my understanding is about half of eingine cooling takes plsce in the oil.
My GC filter, does require about 1.5 gallons perchange, which i do about once a month. So you will use more oil. However having said that, you will always have plenty of fresh additives in the oil, which do get used up as the oil ages.
But application should dictate use. Unleess you have an extremly sooty engine or do heavy haul i think the AmsOil bypass system is the simplest.
Using amsoil itself is kind of a pain as you have to carry it with you. Not so much a problem if you go home once a month. I use it, but i carry a case in my tool box.
K had my head off recently and the mechanic said my sleeves showed almost no wear at all, which considering i have 800k on the truck, and havent changed the oil in over 400k, is quite a testement to the GC filter and amsoil. The main thing seems to be to keep the soot foiltered out and the acids nuetralised.
Also, 60 bucks a month on oil is alot less than 189, which is what i used to spend. If I used the Amsoil bypass filter in place of the GC, my expense would be half again.
I use the amsoil bypass on my generator.
I will be putting amsoil bypass on my wifes car and my Duramax truck, when i finally leave this bussiness next year.
Incidently, even the AmsOil literature ranks regular "Delvac" as almost as good as there product but higher than some synthetics. So delvac with a bypass sysstem should be good enough.
One other thing, when i switched to amsoil my mirrors quit vibrating so much. I know that is subjective, but both my wife and i noticed it on the first trip we took using amsoil.l
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I use Amsoil in my 2008 sprinter van and all my personal stuff as well the oil in my opinion is the best oil you can get I can go 30,000 mi per oil change on my sprinter I have done two oil analysis after 10,000 mi intervals with changing the filter as well . I get a commercial discount and the dealer I get my oil from doesn't charge shipping and he's aout 30 mins away from my house or 2 mins off the hwy when I go to toronto hope this helps out as for there bypass system top notch


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The Morrison's say Jessica's greatest hope is to be able to run in the park with her three year old son one day.
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Tallahassee, FL - A Tallahassee woman is now awaiting a lung transplant, hoping any day will be the day she gets that call.
Jessica Morrison Rossman and her family are counting a 5K run this weekend to help them put a small dent in what is expected to be a six figure bill for the transplant and the medicine she will need afterward.
Jessica Morrison Rossman still tries to play ball with her two year old son Ryan, but she can't play for long. She is on oxygen 24-7 these days.
Cystic fibrosis fills her lungs with mucous and it's a struggle to breathe, but Jessica has new hope after finding out this summer she is now on the approved list for a lung transplant.
'"For me it means oh gosh the world to me. it will change my life completely so I'll be able to do things I've never been able to do," Morrison-Rossman said, "like take my son to the park."
Jessica, who is 23 years old, finds herself in the hospital every few months now with a wracking cough, shortness of breath and plummeting oxygen levels.
She was diagnosed with CF when she was an infant. We first met her when she was 12.
Her mother ... then and now ... chokes back tears as she talks about their faith ... and the wait for a transplant.
"When they first told us it was time, it was very emotional and as a mom and I can say this for her dad too, it is scary. I mean ... but we know there's no other option," Jackie Morrison said.
The Morrisons are now waiting for a call to get in the car and head for Shands for new lungs and what they hope will be a new lease on life for her and her son.
"He doesn't know I don't think what it'll do for me in his future, but I do. That's definitely my biggest reason is I want to be in his future," Morrison Rossman said.
Tropical Storm Karen is no match for Jessica and her family. The family's church Seminole Baptist is hosting a 5-k "Run for Jess" this weekend. It will go on rain or shine. It's at Tom Brown Park Sunday at 4:30.


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el paso tx — The Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso is at a crossroads. The museum board of directors claims the City of El Paso is evicting them, after thirteen years of calling the downtown location home.
"We've been bringing this story to more than 10,000 people every year for the last several years," said museum director Prince McKenzie.
The museum collects and preserves thousands of historical pieces and antiques.
"If it hadn't been for the railroads, El Paso would just be a pimple in the state. We wouldn't be anything, so why can't you preserve the history of what transpired here," said a former railroad worker Ernesto Mendoza.
"You have to wonder where the commitment is from city government to cultural affairs," said museum attorney Terry Hammond.
According to the museum board of directors, the city came to the group and told them to move out of the front room of the building because a coffee shop had plans to move in. The museum packed up their things and moved everything into the main room. But then the city put a lease sign back up out front, and for weeks there has been no sign of a coffee shop. Now the museum's frustration grows as the city has asked them to move out completely.
"The city begins to complain that the proper part of the museum is too stacked p with things because it was moved from here to there. And they needed to vacate this space by 5pm today," said Hammond.
The city was allowing the museum to stay rent free. The museum says that changed because of the future increase in property value, it is was in the best interest for the city to start renting it out to paying customers.
"I don't know if a city government can be dishonest but all I know is there a lease sign up and we were told there was a tenant ready to move in," said Hammond. "So now we have no museum at all. Tourists are coming by, school children, citizens of El Pas and they're being told the museum is closed."
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Worcestershire Coroners' Court heard on Tuesday (January 7) how Anthony James Taylor, 22, of Lyttleton Avenue, Charford, died on November 24 after borrowing a friend's car and driving it into the water at Boat Lane in Evesham.
Mr Taylor was first reported missing after he made several phone calls and sent numerous texts to his family and friends which suggested his intention to kill himself. He told one friend 'he was off to pay his respects to the River Avon'.
Det Insp Dean Williams, from Kidderminster Police, who led the investigation into the search for Mr Taylor, expressed the view that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. He added on the evidence gathered it seemed he was depressed and tried to take his own life.
DI Williams told the court the police first became aware of Mr Taylor's intentions when they received a call from a woman who had been sent a text suggesting he was going to take his life.
He said Mr Taylor was deemed to be at high risk as he had a history of depression and had previously attempted to kill himself two-years ago.
He added because of that reason, the police had used a large number of officers, including specialists, to try and find Mr Taylor as soon as possible and had even 'pinged' his mobile phone in a bid to locate the area he was in.
Unfortunately, after several days of searching, the specialist team found his body in the river.
Mr Taylor's family told the court they were shocked to hear about his depression and how he had previously tried to take his life as they had not known or been told about it.
During the hearing, coroner Geraint Williams read out two witness statements.
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Both reports found Mr Taylor suffered death by drowning.
Mr Williams said from the evidence which had been given, he believed Mr Talor was depressed and killed himself by deliberately driving into the river and had drowned.
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John Sandford has kept me pleasantly engrossed with the Prey series of books. I am grateful that he saw the opportunity to create a spin-off series based on one of Lucas Davenport's cohorts.
Since the first Virgil Flowers book, I have been faithfully looking forward to each next one. Bad Blood is as enjoyable as its predecessors, and has left me wanting more.
Mr. Sandford, please keep them coming.
"Couldn't get in sync with it."
A lot of information and examples...but of what exactly? I did not find a well developed hypothesis turned to a satisfactory conclusion. Just several..."okay, that's interesting" type moments, but few and far between.
Also, how can I rely on his statements when I hear false facts.
For example, he states that nuclear submarine personnel live on an 18 hour shift. That is true. But he then states that they have a 6 hour work shift and 12 hours of rest. Sorry, no 12 hours rest. Did you even talk to a submariner before writing this? It's more like 6 hours of duty work, 6 hours of other work and "activities," and then if you have absolutely nothing else to do you might use all of the remaining 6 hours for rest.
Maybe the author feels that the incoherence throughout his book will cause it to sync by the end of the last chapter. For me, it did not.
I did like his interpretation of the Bose-Einstein Condensate, however.
"Great information...but"
...a download of some charts and diagrams would help. I had to rewind countless times just to attempt to visualize the multitude of particles, their behaviors and relationships. The book is good. It is informational. However, at times, especially when the narrator should sloooow down a bit, the really good stuff floods me as a tsunami would. Fast and unexepected. I will need to re-listen to this book a few more times to catch what I have missed.
Every review I have read on this page (to date) has been accurate concerning this book. Believe them. This is a worthwhile listen. Just brush up on your shorthand and be prepared with a pencil and some scratch paper.
"Pulled away from anything better to do."
This is the same old drivel on social-networking (yeah, believe it or not, the concept is not new), wrapped in a desire to coin a phrase by dropping internet lingo, people's names, and current catchy buzzwords all over the place. Nothing enlightening or entertaining. Some people will say "oh, it's much more than social-networking," but sorry, it's not. Boring, worthless slop. This is the only audio book I have ever truly wished I could return. I will passionately disregard these authors in the future, and Pull every last byte of this book from my PC. It's a waste of time and space. Push it off your wish lists.
"Half a book. Breathless half was not written."
I have read or listened to most of Dean Koontz's novels, and been quite pleased. This one, however, ends before what could have been the best part of the book. Characters and themes introduced, the start of real story begins, and then what Dean? Did you just give up? Publisher run out of paper? Were you Breathless?
"This cannot be James Patterson"
If James Patterson wrote this, it must have been when he was 12 years old. I would rather be strapped down and forced to watch 24 hours of Murder She Wrote. This is a painful, melodramatic listen. Minute after minute, I find myself struggling with how this ever got published. Buyer beware!!!


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If the Robin Hood story were set in today's new global economy, would Robin be portrayed as an enemy of the poor because his activities discouraged investment in Sherwood Forest? And would the Sheriff of Nottingham be praised by the media for a tough-love approach to economic development that is gradually winning the appreciation of the low-paid serfs grateful for the work he provides?
If one believes recent New York Times news articles about global economic controversies, Robin and the sheriff have indeed reversed their traditional roles. In several recent Times news stories, transnational corporations are depicted as doing their utmost to promote progress for the poor in underdeveloped countries, providing a much-needed boost to otherwise stagnant local economies.
Meanwhile, the Times has suggested, U.S. unionists and others critical of corporate treatment of workers are attempting to block economic gains for Third World workers, with their pious concern for "sweatshop" workers merely serving as camouflage for the dark purpose of keeping jobs in the U.S.
In the Times' news stories, the fundamental struggle in the global economy is not between exploitative transnational corporations and workers held down at the lowest possible wages under the harshest possible conditions, but between U.S. unionists selfishly trying to hang on to their over-paid jobs and Third World workers eagerly grasping the opportunities extended by multinational corporations.
Who's the Real Exploiter?
This theme emerged in the controversy over TV talkshow host Kathie Lee Gifford, who had been charged by Charlie Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee with profiting from the use of 13- and 14-year-old Hondurans to make her Wal-Mart clothing line. (See Extra!, 9-10/96.) In a June 27 New York Times story (6/27/96), reporter Stephanie Strom suggested that Gifford had been unfairly singled out and held to an unrealistic standard--"Monitoring work and pay conditions in the thousands of factories that make clothing for American stores would be an all-but-impossible task"--by critics who weren't really all that interested in the situation of Honduran workers: "In fact, some experts say Western campaigns against low-wage factories overseas mostly benefit the American labor movement and do more harm than good in poor countries by draining off scarce jobs and choking off investment."
To advance its own hidden agenda, Strom wrote, U.S. labor has chosen to pillory the unfortunate Gifford, who "now figures that much of the time she had hoped to spend with her children Cody and Cassidy will be eaten up by meetings with labor activists and politicians."
No doubt the Honduran workers toiling on the Kathie Lee clothing line for up to 20 hours a day will be able to identify with her plight of being unable to spend time with her family. However, the similarity stops there: The Hondurans producing her clothes would be unlikely to spend time in meetings with labor activists unless they were willing to take the risk of being fired. For years in the "free trade" zone in Honduras where Gifford's clothing was made, any sign of union activity had swiftly induced firings by management, the National Labor Committee says.
The absence of real rights and choices for Honduran workers is equally absent from Larry Rohter's July 18 New York Times piece, sub-headlined, "U.S. Critics See 'Monstrous Sweatshops,' But Hondurans See Better Life." The context of systematic crushing of union rights is totally absent from the Strom and Rohter depictions of generally benevolent employers. Only very recently have unions been allowed to form (and their independence and democratic character are open to question.) While some union activity is now tolerated by corporations and the government in Honduras, workers remember vividly that union organizers were often abducted and "disappeared" by government security forces in the early 1980s.
Other important elements of context are also "disappeared" in the Times articles on the Honduran sweatshops. Life in Honduran factories is "far more complicated than portrayed in the American debate over 'sweatshops,'" Rohter insists. "What residents of a rich country like the United States see as exploitation can seem a rare opportunity to residents of a poor country like Honduras, where the per capita income is $600 a year and unemployment is 40 percent." And such misperceptions about "exploitation" may merely serve to conceal the self-interested aims of the sweatshops' critics: "Many here [in Honduras] say critics from the north are more interested in protecting jobs in the United States than in improving the lot of Honduran workers."
But sweatshop critics like the National Labor Committee have emphatically repeated that they are not trying to hold up Honduran conditions against U.S. standards, but against the capacity of transnational employers to provide more decent wages and working conditions and respect internationally recognized standards of labor rights. By conveniently restricting comparisons to a choice between the admittedly miserable circumstances of agrarian life in Honduras and working in a "maquila" factory, the Times stacks the deck in favor of corporations that offer steady employment not at the mercy of floods, drought or pestilence. But why not contrast the financial capabilities of companies like Wal-Mart with what they actually offer in pay and conditions for their workers? Such comparisons never seem to occur to the Times.
"Global Hopscotch"
Even when not deriding corporations' critics, a blind faith in the good will of U.S.-based transnationals and the merits of unregulated U.S. investment overseas seems to shape the Times' news coverage. Covering a dispute at the University of Wisconsin over the school's $7.9 million endorsement deal with Reebok--a company facing criticism for labor practices in its Indonesia plants—the Times reported June 28 that Reebok officials say "the company pays the highest possible local wages at its foreign factories."
This claim of the "highest possible" wages--accepted at face value by the Times--stands in sharp contradiction to evidence from numerous human-rights groups, like Britain's Christian Aid, that Reebok's workers are virtual shoe slaves whose wages of about $2 a day provide only the barest subsistence. One recent study (by the Internaional Labor Organization) found that 88 percent of Indonesian workers employed in the sport-shoe industry suffered from malnutrition because their wages were so low.
Far from paying the "highest possible" local wage, Reebok seeks out localities with the lowest possible wages. As a headline in U.S. News & World Report (6/5/95) admiringly explained, Reebok plays a game of "Global hopscotch: Reebok jumps from one Asian site to another in search of low-cost labor." When the lives of its workers begin to improve in any meaningful way, Reebok quickly abandons them and moves on to a new site. After wages in Korea and Taiwan finally began to climb as new unions broke down repressive walls and demanded higher pay, Reebok closed its operations there and set up shop in China and Indonesia, where independent unions are effectively banned.
But such denials of basic rights in Indonesia were downplayed in an Aug. 9 piece by the New York Times' Seth Mydans, whose message is echoed in this photo caption: "Workers at the Nike plant say that even at low pay, sewing sneakers represents one rung on their climb up Indonesia's economic and social ladder." Mydans states, "The Government and economists like Mr. de Tray [of the World Bank] argue that cheap labor is essential to the country's economic growth and they say that it is unreasonable to apply Western standards to the labor market in developing countries."
As for Nike's willingness to pay millions for Michael Jordan's endorsement while imposing low wages and harsh conditions in Indonesia, Mydans quotes one worker who declares, "I don't care about any of that." Mydans neglects to quote a single Nike employee critical of the company's policies, under which workers are paid somewhere between 90 cents and $1.66 for each pair of sneakers sold for $70. Nor does he note that Indonesian workers who were critical of Nike could face severe consequences.
Bob Herbert of the New York Times op-ed page, whose columns on sweatshops have contrasted sharply with the Times' news coverage, interviewed Cicieh Sukaesih, a young Nike worker fired for union activity who toured the U.S. this summer exposing the company's labor policies (7/15/96). Her accounts of young Nike workers living in tin or bamboo huts with no running water were a far cry from the fast life in discos mentioned in Mydans' news story.
The New York Times has had a difficult time reconciling its faith that "free trade" inevitably improves the lives of the poor with the inconvenient fact that Third World employees of U.S.-based transnationals have remained mired in misery. The Times has filled the yawning canyon between free-market faith and the wretched reality of sweatshop workers' lives with a blend of unfounded boosterism about low-wage "bright spots" and snide attacks on the motives of those who dare to focus public scrutiny on the actual situation.
Roger Bybee is communications coordinator of Wisconsin Citizen Action and active in the Wisconsin Fair Trade Campaign.


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The lights on Broadway dimmed tonight in honor of the late and beloved actor Karl Malden, who died at the age of 97 on July 1st. Although his work has been sporadic over the last couple decades, Malden was a fixture on television sets in the '70s on the TV show "The Streets of San Francisco". Malden is best known to theater fans for two roles in particular, as Mitch in the original Broadway production of the Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Desire (which he repeated on film), and as Herbie in the movie version of the musical Gypsy. He performed on Broadway in a number of plays by 20th century greats from the '30s through the '50s, including Golden Boy, All My Sons, Tea and Sympathy, and a 1952 revival of Desire Under the Elms. Karl Malden's notable film credits include On the Waterfront, Birdman of Alcatraz, and Patton. He won an Oscar for his role in Streetcar, amongst many other well-deserved award nominations and honors.
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Our favorite detective Robert Downey Jr. and right hand man Jude Law are coming back to defeat their arch enemies in their eye-spy action thriller "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows"! This time, he tries to overcome a new villain, Professor Moriarty, played by Jared Harris, in this suspenseful and adrenaline-rushing movie preview that will leave you on the edge of your seat!
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In the new installment of this old-fashioned detective scene, the Prince of Austria is found dead and Sherlock Holmes & John Watson (Law) want to get to the very bottom of the criminal act by attempting to stop his equally brilliant counterpart Professor Moriarty. Added to the cast is an attractive gypsy fortune teller by the name of Sim, played by Noomi Rapace, who unwittingly gets involved in their killer investigation. And of course, we see Rachel McAdams playing her utterly seductive role as Irene Adler who keeps Holmes on his toes.
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International Fellowship & Scholarship Opportunities
Your gateway to the world begins with the following prestigious international fellowships and scholarships. In this section, you will find a brief overview of each fellowship and scholarship, along with deadlines, website links, and eligibility requirements.
NOTE: These scholarships require Pace University nomination or recommendation of your application. You are not able to apply for these opportunities individually. The stated Pace Institutional Deadlines are final, and applicants must have their complete application submitted to the Prestigious Fellowship Coordinator by the marked deadline.
The Rhodes Trust, a British charity established to honor the will and bequest of Cecil J. Rhodes, provides full financial support for Rhodes Scholars to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Deadline to apply: October 1, 2014
Website: http://www.rhodesscholar.org
Eligibility Requirements:
a citizen of the United States
at least 18 but not yet 24 years of age (i.e., the applicant must still be 23 on October 1 in the year of application)
sufficiently advanced academically to assure completion of a bachelor's degree before October 1 in the year following election
Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship
This scholarship provides awards for U.S. undergraduate students who are receiving Federal Pell Grant funding at a two-year or four-year college or university to participate in study abroad programs worldwide.
Pace Institutional Deadline: February 28, 2014
Deadline to apply: March 4, 2014 (for summer/fall 2014)
Website: http://www.iie.org/gilman
Eligibility Requirements:
a citizen of the United States
receiving a Federal Pell Grant
accepted into a study abroad program eligible for credit by the student's accredited institution of higher education in the U.S.
studying abroad in any country except Cuba or a country on the U.S. Department of State's current Travel Warning list
2.5 GPA and Sophomore standing
Boren Scholarships & Fellowships
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. We focus on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. national security, broadly defined, and underrepresented in study abroad.
Pace Institutional Deadline: November 15, 2014
Deadline to apply for Boren Scholarship: February 5, 2014
Website: http://www.borenawards.org/
Eligibility Requirements:
a citizen of the United States
Must apply to a study abroad experience in a country outside of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand
Planning to use the scholarship for study abroad, and the study abroad program ends before you graduate.
Offers intensive summer language institutes overseas in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2012.
Pace Institutional Deadline: October 27, 2013
Deadline to apply: November 2014 (for summer 2015)
Website: www.CLScholarship.org
Eligibility Requirements:
a citizen of the United States
currently enrolled in a U.S. degree-granting program (undergraduate or graduate)
Current undergraduate students must have completed at least one year of study
Applicants must be 18 by the beginning of the CLS Program
Please see CLS Institute Language Levels for more information on language pre-requisites for individual institutes
DAAD offers a wide range of funding opportunities. Since DAAD New York is the representative office for all of North America its programs are open to students, faculty, administrators, and staff of North American higher education institutions. The primary goal of DAAD funding is to facilitate transatlantic mobility to Germany for US and Canadian scholars, therefore Germany must be a component of your intended academic travel.
Pace Institutional Deadline: November 2014
Official Deadline: February 2015
Website: http://www.daad.org
Eligibility Requirements:
Multiple scholarship opportunities are available, and eligibility requirements vary. Please consult the DAAD website to determine which program is the best fit for you.
Erasmus Mundus aims to enhance quality in higher education through scholarships and academic cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world.The Erasmus Mundus Program awards scholarships to students of exceptional quality to follow and Erasmus Mundus Masters course or Joint Doctorate at two or more European universities. There are nearly 150 masters and doctoral programs to choose from. Since 2004, more than 310 American students have been selected for Erasmus Mundus scholarships.
Pace Institutional Deadline: September 2014
Official Deadline: Deadline varies by program, typically December 2014.
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/education/external-relation-programmes/mundus_en.htm\
Eligibility Requirements:
- Vary by Erasmus Mundus program
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide
Application Opens: May, 2014
Pace Institutional Deadline: September 12, 2014
Deadline to apply: mid-October 2014
Website: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html
Eligibility Requirements:
- a citizen of the United States
- be completing, or hold a Bachelor's degree by May 2013.
- 3.5 GPA (Pace requirement)
Fulbright U.K. Summer Institutes
Fulbright U.K. Summer institutes provide the opportunity for US undergraduates (aged over 18), with at least two years of undergraduate study left to complete, to come to the UK on a three-six week academic and cultural summer program. Students will partake in an academic program at a highly regarded UK University. The Summer Institutes cover round-trip airfare, tuition and fees at the host university, accommodation and meals
Deadline to Apply #1: February 27, 2014
Deadline to Apply #2: March 6, 2014
Website: http://www.fulbright.org.uk/fulbright-awards/exchanges-to-the-uk/undergraduates
Eligibility Requirements:
- be a US citizen
- be at least 18 years old by the start of the program
- be able to participate in the program in its entirety;
- have a high level of academic achievement with a minimum GPA of 3.5 (confirmed by academic marks, awards and references);
- have at least two years of undergraduate study left to complete, i.e. applicants should currently be a Freshman or Sophomore
Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from outside the UK to pursue a postgraduate degree in any subject at the University of Cambridge. The program aims to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
Online Applications Open:September 1, 2014
Deadline to apply: October 15, 2014
Website: http://www.gatesscholar.org/
Eligibility Requirements:
may be citizens of any country outside the United Kingdom
may apply to study any subject available at the University of Cambridge
may apply to pursue one of the following full-time residential courses of study
o PhD (three year research-only degree)
o One year postgraduate course (e.g. MPhil, LLM, Diploma, MBA etc.)
o MSc or MLitt (two year research-only degree -
must be admitted to one of the degrees above at Cambridge through the University's normal admission procedures. The Trust does not admit students
evidence of high academic achievement, leadership potential, social commitment and a good fit with Cambridge
George J. Mitchell Scholarship
The Mitchell Scholars Program, named to honor former US Senator George Mitchell's pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement, leadership, and a commitment to community and public service. Up to twelve Mitchell Scholars between the ages of 18 and 30 are chosen annually for one year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Online Application Opens: Spring 2014
Deadline to apply: October 1,2014
Website: http://www.us-irelandalliance.org/scholarships.html
Eligibility Requirements:
a citizen of the United States
be at least 18 years of age, but not yet 30 years
hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university (not necessarily in the US) before beginning study as a Mitchell Scholar.
The Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together international groups of students to study human rights and to produce original research exploring how and why individuals and societies resist intolerance and stand up for democratic values. The programs will begin in Washington, DC with at the Council on Foreign Relations. Fellows will then participate in month-long fellowships in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Lyon or Warsaw. Intensive and demanding, the Humanity in Action Fellowship features daily lectures and discussions with leading academics, journalists, politicians and activists, as well as site visits to government agencies, non-profit organizations, museums and memorials.
Pace Institutional Deadline: December 1, 2013
Deadline to Apply: January 10, 2014
Website: http://www.humanityinaction.org/programs/14-hia-fellowship
Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to forty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.
Online Application Opens: Late Spring 2014
Deadline to apply: early-October 2014
Eligibility Requirements:
a citizen of the United States
hold their first undergraduate degree in the United States
GPA 3.7 (or A-) on their undergraduate degree
not have studied for, or hold a degree or degree-equivalent qualification from a British University
The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship. Since that time, 210,000+ Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 139 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation. Specifically, volunteers do work in six program areas: education, youth and community development, health, business and information and communications technology, agriculture, and environment.
Deadline to Apply: Rolling Admission
Website: http://www.peacecorps.gov/learn/
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Abbott insists Coalition can work with Jakarta on asylum
PUBLISHED: 19 Sep 2013 08:34:00 | UPDATED: 19 Sep 2013 13:21:59PRINT EDITION: 19 Sep 2013Indonesian politicians say they heard of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's Operation Sovereign Borders policy only when it appeared in newspapers. Photo: AFP
John Kerin
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has insisted Australia will be able to work with Indonesia, despite growing tensions over the government's hardline asylum seeker policy.
Mr Abbott was responding after another Indonesian MP slammed Australia's boat people policies, claiming Indonesia had been offended by the Coalition government's lack of consultation over its people-smuggling policy.
Tantowi Yahya, a member of the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Commission, said the first he and his colleagues knew of Mr Abbott's Operation Sovereign Borders policy was when it appeared in newspapers.
Mr Tantowi told ABC TV there was consensus between Indonesia's government and parliament not to agree with the Coalition's plans.
He said the Indonesian parliament would completely reject the Coalition's policy to turn back boats carrying asylum seekers, indicating his country would deem such a move illegal.
But Mr Abbott said Mr Tantowi's voice was just one of many in Indonesia.
'Indonesia is a robust democracy as Australia is'
"Indonesia is a robust democracy as Australia is,'' Mr Abbott said on Thursday.
"There are many voices on Indonesia but I am very confident that this government will be able to work effectively with the Indonesian government as former Coalition governments have done."
But last week, Indonesia's Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa, said Jakarta was opposed to Mr Abbott's hardline boat people policy, including his plans to buy Indonesian fishing boats and pay informants to dob in people smugglers.
Mr Natalegawa has made it clear previously that Indonesia also does not accept Mr Abbott's boats turn-back policy.
Mr Abbott is expected to visit Jakarta on September 30 for talks with Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Mr Abbott is also expected to discuss Indonesia's plans to invest in Australian cattle properties as part of a move to develop its own beef industry.
- with AAP
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Twin Cities Immigration Lawyer Accused Of Misconduct
Thursday, December 26, 2013
(St. Paul, MN) -- An immigration lawyer in the Twin Cities could be disbarred over allegations of misconduct. The "Star Tribune" reports among several issues, Herbert Igbanugo allegedly charged unreasonable fees, made false statements to the court and harassed clients to pay up. The accusations come from a petition filed recently by the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility. Final disciplinary action will be up to the Minnesota Supreme Court.


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On these pages you will find a summary of all information on this website. In case you cannot find what you are looking for, please call us at (+31) (0)50 314 0550 (booking office) or at (+31) (0)50 314 4644 (office), or send an e-mail to Dit e-mailadres is beschermd tegen spambots. U heeft Javascript nodig om het te kunnen zien. . We will be pleased to answer your question.
Samir Calixto / Korzo Producties - Paradise Lost (dance), 7 MAR
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Grand Theatre Groningen creates and presents performances and concerts. Sharp and sensitive. Worldwide, from the heart of Groningen.
Grand Theatre Groningen seeks, scouts and stimulates, with the goal of providing time, space and support to often still unknown ambitious performing artists in elaborating and intensifying their plans. This invariably results in exciting and inspiring shows and concerts, provocative where need be, right up to date with current developments.
The marvellous theatre on the Grote Markt in the centre of Groningen has been working to win over a much larger and broader public. Interesting city initiatives, young entrepreneurs and programme-makers are given scope to realize their ideas, working alongside residential companies such as Het Houten Huis, Club Guy & Roni and De Jongens, and festivals such as Eurosonic/Noorderslag, Noorderzon and Jonge Harten.
A considerable number of performances is also suitable for non Dutch-speakers, either because they have little or no text or because they are in English. Obviously, there is no language barrier when it comes to concerts. If you would like to know whether a particular performance is interesting for you, please do not hesitate to contact us. We can also offer suggestions with regard to performances that are particularly suitable for foreign speakers.
You can buy tickets online or at the box office.
For online tickets you need an account. Click on the login button to make your account. You can only pay with a Dutch bank account.
Box office open Monday to Friday from 13.00 to 17.00 hrs. Telephone (+31) (0)50 314 0550. Booking office also open evenings and weekends from 45 minutes before curtain.
Doors open just before curtain. Seats are not numbered. No admittance after curtain. The refreshment room is open 45 minutes before curtain, and after the performance.
Payment: Cash, by switch card, theatre voucher or "Cultuurkaart".
In the Grand Theatre the usual concessions apply, e.g. by "CJP" pass and the "Stadjers" pass. Students enjoy a concession on presentation of their "OV Student's Card". In that case the entrance fee is usually € 12,50. Art students are charged a special concession rate, they pay € 7,- for a ticket. This goes for students of the Minerva Art Academy, the Frank Mohr Institute, the "Conservatorium" School of Music, and the Art, Culture and Media Course in Groningen University, amongst others.
The Grand Theatre is located in the city centre of Groningen, on Grote Markt. The best way to get to the theatre is by bicycle or on foot. It is approximately a 15 minutes' walk from the main railway station – follow the signs "Grote Markt/VVV". Local buses stopping at Grote Markt are number 3 (for Lewenborg), number 5 (for Paddepoel), number 6 (for Beijum) and number 11 (for Zernike).
Information on parking: VVV Groningen. For a route description use one of the route planners on the internet. You will find an up-to-the-minute route on ANWB routeplanner. This route will refer you to the nearest multi-storey car park. A route description that will take you to the front door of the theatre, is on the page with the technische informatie of the Grand Theatre.