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Films Smart People Think Are Clever
Features By Scott Beggs on October 27, 2014 | Be the First To CommentYou've probably already spotted the Esquire UK post called "Films Stupid People Think Are Clever" where the likes of Christopher Nolan and David Fincher are given the shortest end of the stick. It's a worthless article that represents the easiest kind of contrarianism: People like these things? Let's say we don't like them, but not really explain why. Now, I'm a reasonable un-stupid person by all the traditional rubrics. My IQ is three digits, my SAT score was four, and I'm probably one (maybe two) practice sessions away from being able to walk and chew gum simultaneously. I've read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," and I think I've understood them. They're about girls, right? Just kidding. I'm also smart enough to recognize that Esquire's trolling traffic-magnet doesn't deserve a response. Or at least not an angry one. The thing is, I'm dumb enough to take any opportunity to rethink why I see films like The Shawshank Redemption and American Beauty as fantastically intelligent (even clever). Contrarianism, even the lazy kind, can be good if we use it to challenge ourselves in the right way. If it's a chance to examine why I'm stupid enough to appreciate these movies, count me in.
This Program Averages Every Frame of a Movie to Compare Visual Tones
Features By Scott Beggs on April 14, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThe modern art museum-worthy image you're looking at is the result of averaging every frame of a movie — in this case Mr. Anderson learning to stop bullets — in order to find a tonal mean. It was created by coding hobbyist Corey Phillips, who wrote the script that does the heavy lifting and shared it with Reddit. "Film buffs, and increasingly also gamers, debate the significance of color filters that are applied in post-processing," Phillips tells me when I ask what prompted the project. "For example, The Matrix was released with reasonably neutral coloring, then re-released with more dramatic coloring. I originally wrote this program to see just how much color correction changed the tone of a film. For films like The Matrix, that turned out to be a lot." According to Phillips, the coding works essentially like a double exposure photograph with hundreds of thousands of photos (each frame of the film) layered on top of one another to create the final effect.
Required Reading: The Sci-Fi Legacies of 'Demolition Man' and 'Metropolis'
Features By Scott Beggs on April 2, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThe best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?
23 Things We Learned from 'The Matrix' Commentary
Commentary Commentary By Kevin Carr on March 19, 2014 | Be the First To CommentWant to feel old? Then consider the fact that The Matrix is 15 years old this month. This film was made before the turn of the century, before digital projection, before the 3D craze, and before any of the Star Wars prequels were released. It was a groundbreaking film, not just for its innovative action sequences but also for its brainy nature compared to many contemporary action films. One of the early releases on DVD, The Matrix was loaded with special features, including multiple commentary tracks. The original concept by The Wachowskis was to have two separate commentary tracks: one with philosophers who liked the movie, and one with film critics who did not. After wrangling with Warner Bros. a bit on this decision, those commentaries did not appear on the original release (though they are available on the Blu-ray and more recent DVDs for your listening pleasure). Two commentaries were recorded, including a music-only track commentary by composer Don Davis, and a traditional cast commentary, which has the most production information and trivia rather than analysis. This is what we'll be covering here. However, I encourage fans of The Matrix to check out the additional commentaries on the Blu-ray for the philosophical and critical analysis that the Wachowskis originally intended.
6 Mind Blowing Movie and TV Theories That Will Blow Your Mind
Cinematic Listology By Danny Bowes on February 27, 2014 | Comments (5)Movies and TV shows are fun to think about and discuss. Clearly. But as much as this is the case, there's still a point past which we're not talking about the movie or show in any meaningful way. One thing that becomes clear after doing any kind of serious critical work for any significant period of time is that, just because something's there doesn't necessarily give it meaning. True Detective is a great example: the best part about all those great McConaughey four-bong-hit college philosophy student monologues about nihilism is that they don't mean anything with regards to the big picture. (Even with two episodes remaining, consider that an ironclad guarantee.) And sometimes people apply the same four-bong-hit college philosophy student mindsets to the movies and TV shows themselves. They lead Andy's Mom to have a deeper identity, or for entire stories to shuffle off their context, so it's always nice to have a reminder of what these theories really are. Here are some of the most beside-the-point "mind-blowing" theories about films and TV.
12 Movies to Watch After You've Seen 'The LEGO Movie'
Features By Christopher Campbell on February 9, 2014 | Be the First To CommentConsidering I do these weekly lists of movies to watch in order to highlight new releases as gateways to older works, it's particularly fun to focus on something geared toward children. Young people aren't as familiar with a lot of movies, so they're more in need of such recommendations. A lot of time, though, the allusions they should subsequently become familiar with are for an older audience. At least one movie included in this week's list inspired by The LEGO Movie, for instance, is definitely not suitable for children at all. Others won't be of much interest to them. Meanwhile, there are a lot of obvious, explicit movie references in The LEGO Movie that I didn't feel necessary to spotlight, such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lincoln and any of the many DC superhero movies featuring some of the characters represented in LEGO minifig form. There are some fairly obvious titles included, though; the first half of the list is mainly movies that many critics have mentioned in comparison. And then there is the second half, which is filled with pretty obscure films, most documentaries, tied to LEGO in some way. As always, name any movies this one reminded you of as well as any you think we ought to check out next. Also as always, beware that there are spoilers for this week's movie, so if you haven't yet seen The LEGO Movie, you need to do so right now and then come back to […]
The Best and Worst Super Bowl Movie Trailers
Features By Christopher Campbell on February 2, 2014 | Be the First To CommentOne thing you have to remember about movie trailers aired during the Super Bowl is they're out to appeal to a very mainstream audience. Many of us watch the game solely for the commercials, but that doesn't mean advertisers are targeting anyone interested in movies and their marketing more than they're aiming for those mass American viewers interested in football, cheap beer, blockbuster-size entertainment and a few laughs. That means first looks at big summer movies concentrating on their explosions and other promise of spectacle. Not everyone follows movie news regularly, so this is the time when the rest of the country begins buzzing about this year's major tentpoles, and whether that's positive or negative buzz determines anticipation, and that might even make or break some titles down the line. Leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII, we present the teasers made available ahead of the game's actual full-on spots. Join us after the game, though, for more of a ranking of which trailers worked and which didn't. Additionally, you can find some neat movie- and TV-related ads down below, too.
Was the Matrix Even Necessary in 'The Matrix'?
Features By Kevin Carr on January 8, 2014 | Comments (2)Want to feel old? Consider that The Wachowskis' groundbreaking science fiction action film turns 15 years old this year. That's old enough to start shaving and testing for a learner's permit. Forget what you think about the polarizing sequels, The Matrix helped bridge the sometimes cheesy science fiction films of the 80s and 90s with the more modern, computer-dominated films of the 21st century. It wasn't necessarily a new idea, but it was rather stunning how the Wachowskis presented it. It's a staple of cyberpunk plots: man against machine. Still, as often as this device is used, watching the movie 15 years later got me thinking: Was the Matrix system even necessary?
What 'The Matrix: Revolutions' Teaches Us About Hollywood's Past Ten Years
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on November 5, 2013 | Comments (4)Ten years ago today, The Matrix: Revolutions was released in theaters. This is, of course, no monumental cinematic anniversary. It's quite likely that nobody will ask you today, or any day for that matter, where you were the first time you saw the third Matrix film. At most, this revelation will be a reminder that you, like me, are getting older, and the space between decades ain't what it used to be. But much has changed in studio tentpole filmmaking in the past ten years – in practice, if not, well, "quality." On this rather unceremonious anniversary, the third Matrix film has a surprising lot to tell us about how studio franchises have developed since the early Bush era, and where they likely will and won't go moving forward. The Matrix, a film series initiated by a late-90s cyberpunk sleeper hit that arguably overshadowed the return of f*cking Star Wars, by its final chapter came to be treated by Hollywood as a failed prototype never to be repeated again.
The 10 Most Creatively Brutal Movie Interrogation Scenes
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on July 18, 2013 | Comments (5)Any psychotic can smash someone's fingers or beat a head to a pulp until they get what they want – and thanks to the spree of bizarre torture porn movies like Saw and Hostel, seeing people get cut apart is almost standard at this point. Still, filmmakers do manage to get creative every now and then, and from it we get a scene of brutality the likes of nothing before it. Shall we celebrate that? Oh, and warning – this is going to be painful.
Film Jockeys #19: Training For 'Oblivion'
Features By Derek Bacon on April 19, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWhat happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the filmmakers and the movie characters that inhabit their world. Written and illustrated by Derek Bacon, it's the perfect webcomic for passionate movie fans who want to fly Tom Cruise's space helicopter. For your consideration, Episode #19:
The 10 Most Mundane Jobs Held By Movie Badasses
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on April 18, 2013 | Comments (1)In reality, no job is actually mundane unless you make it that way. Washing dishes or delivering mail can be terrific if you're happy, and you're with people who make you happy. My point is – a job is whatever you want it to be. You can quote me on that. "A job is whatever you want it to be." – Man wearing pajama pants Anyhoo – in the movie world this tends to be different. Very rarely do we see a character shuffling fries and acting completely content. The best however, is when a mundane job is used to juxtapose the badassness of the character – or better yet, the badass character just happens to have a mundane job attached to them. These are by far the best combinations of "boring" vs "badass" I could think up in a single afternoon while not wearing any pants. Shop smart, everyone:
The 10 Silliest Ways Movie Characters Have Been Resurrected
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on April 4, 2013 | Comments (25)Because Jesus. Also, The Walking Dead hit its season finale on the same day everyone celebrated the most famous resurrection, so it seemed like the right subject for this week's list. Everyone loves a good underdog story, and there's no bigger obstacle to overcome than death, right? Coming back from the dead is a hell of a trick, and while there's the usual reasons like a witch doctor or vampirism or converting into some kind of stupid blue ghost, sometimes an idea will come along that stands out from the norm – mostly because it's a little silly in concept. That isn't to say it's bad. No, it's just… not very profound. For example:
'The Matrix,' 'Dirty Harry,' and More Added to National Film Registry
Movie News By Scott Beggs on December 19, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWe've lost something close to 3/4 of black and white films. It's easy to imagine that we have all of them at our fingertips, and that they'll be there forever, but that's simply not the reality, and it's a good reminder of what can happen if we're not careful. That's part of why the work of the National Film Registry is so vital. They ensure that a large number of time-tested films survive to test even more time. This year, as usual, they've selected 25 flicks to preserve including The Matrix, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dirty Harry, and A Christmas Story (which will also be preserved 24-hours a day as long as TBS still exists). The Library of Congress has also saved Delmer Daves' 3:10 to Yuma (1957); Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder; George Cukor's Born Yesterday; Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own; Richard Linklater's Slacker; the Laurel and Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert; Robert Epstein's documentary The Times of Harvey Milk; Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop; a 1914 adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that's thought to feature the first leading role by a black man; The Augustas (which may be the Scott Nixon compilation of towns in the US named Augusta); The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight from 1897; Nathaniel Dorsky's experimental Hours for Jerome Part 1 & 2; the Kidnapper's Foil films; the Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Tests (which you can see below); Robert Snody's The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair; Kary Antholis' holocaust documentary One Survivor Remembers; Rolf Forsberg and Tom Rook's Christian film Parable, which imagines Christ as a clown and the world as a circus; Ellen Bruno's Samsara: Death and Rebirth in […]
Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore and Ashley Bell Discuss the "Brilliant" Minimalism of 'The Day'
Features By Christopher Campbell on November 25, 2012 | Comments (3)Editors Note: The following interview was conducted in September 2011 but has never been published before today. It is finally seeing the light now because The Day is finally hitting DVD and Blu-ray this Tuesday, November 27. In an interview posted earlier today, director Douglas Aarniokoski and actors Cory Hardrict and Michael Eklund discuss the beneficially miserable conditions of shooting The Day, a post-apocalyptic thriller about a band of starving survivalists who go up against a group of cannibals. After talking with them, I sat down with Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore and Ashley Bell to talk about their own experiences making the film and developing characters they were given little background on. Monaghan and Ashmore also addressed aspects of The Day extra-diagetically relating to their work on Lost, The Lord of the Rings and the X-Men films, while Bell discussed her role as a kick-ass action heroine, which I'll admit is the highlight of the film. Someone should give her a franchise besides the Last Exorcism films.
The Best Damn Oscar Blog: Is Ambition Enough for Cloud Atlas?
Academy Awards By Daniel Walber on November 2, 2012 | Comments (1)If you can find a review of Cloud Atlas that doesn't use the word "ambition," I will give you a quarter. Everyone is talking about the sheer grandiosity of the project, an adaptation of a book that has been called "unfilmable." More than simply the most obvious talking point, the movie's vast scope is also a major point of division between critics. Those that love it seem to praise its ambition most of all, while its detractors claim that the Wachowski Starship and Tom Tykwer bit off far more than they could chew. I would argue for the latter, that while there are many excellent individual moments spread across Cloud Atlas's six stories, the larger endeavor often gets bogged down in its own scope. However, that might mean nothing at all for its Oscar chances. Cloud Atlas is a great example of a group we might call "lesser epics." These films tell broad, temporally extensive narratives that take up many years, distant locales, and well over two hours of screen time. They are often period pieces with meticulous detailing, gorgeous landscapes, and the occasional stunning special effects. Yet for whatever reason they don't come quite come together in the end and they rarely make much money. At the end of the day, however, their ambition is often deemed enough on its own to garner a smattering of Oscar nominations. Cloud Atlas is nothing if not ambitious, but is that enough to impress the Academy?
The Wachowskis haven't directed a ton of movies. They also haven't given a ton of interviews. If we can look at their output versus their impact (and in the case of Speed Racer, divisiveness), they look an awful lot like auteurs. There's a number of themes they enjoy working with as well as a brand of visuals that seem conflicting movie to movie even as they share a kernel of The Future between them. At the very least, it would be easy to call them auteurs, but they completely reject the title and the concept. After Bound, The Matrix series, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas and their non-directorial writing (most notably V for Vendetta), they've maintained a firm view of film as a truly, inextricably collaborative process. For them, that goes even above and behind the standard meaning. They're a bit enigmatic, but that's fantastic. So here's a bit of free film school (for fans and filmmakers alike) from two totally normal, crazy people named Lana and Andy.
What is Really the Best Sci-Fi Film Since 'The Matrix'?
Discussion By Christopher Campbell on September 29, 2012 | Comments (9)Rian Johnson's new film, Looper, is a pretty awesome time travel flick, one with as many elements that are clever and original as there are purposefully derivative and influenced. It's the kind of smart and stylish sci-fi cinema we expect every once in a while on the festival circuit, like Sound of My Voice (which hits DVD and Blu-ray this Tuesday), rather than from a major Hollywood studio. Looper does fit the indie model, though, since Sony/Tristar picked it up for distribution only after it was done shooting, yet as Brian's review of the film attests, we can still consider it a good sign for mainstream movies of this genre, and we can hope that Hollywood will see Johnson as the sort of directorial talent they need. But is it the best science fiction film since The Matrix? That's a question posed in a headline from Time magazine yesterday, though its respective post doesn't address such a discussion let alone attempt to answer the inquiry. Well, if we exclude superhero movies, animated features (Pixar, Miyazaki and The Iron Giant among them) and the Star Trek reboot, Looper is currently one of only two original studio films of its order to be battling for the status of best reviewed since the Wachowskis' groundbreaking modern classic. The other is Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.
The Amazing Origin Stories of 5 Great Films
Cinematic Listology By Scott Beggs on July 26, 2012 | Comments (6)This content series is in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, good taste travels well. Click here to learn more. Where do movies come from? At the risk of sounding like Lucas from Empire Records (although "What's with today, today?" is a perfectly valid question), there's something genuinely incredible about the spark that leads to a multi-million dollar piece of art, crafted by thousands of people that a massive audience can enjoy. Someone reads a book or hears a story or finds an old family heirloom in a basement. Someone wants to recognize a figure that made a profound impact on our world. Someone stumbles across an old idea or has a Eureka Moment in the shower. It all gets put through the ringer and ends up as the only source of light in a darkened room. So, yes, there's a magic to it all. Movies take their ideas from anywhere and everywhere (including other works of art and other movies). To celebrate that, here are five great films made just a bit more incredible by exploring where they come from.
8 Awesome Fictional Movie Games For The Bored and Lazy
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on May 17, 2012 | Be the First To CommentSure, Quidditch looks like a whole bunch of fun until you take into account the fact that you're probably not very good at it. Not to mention how exhausting it must be. There's a reason you barely see anyone over 20 on a broom in those films. So what's a lazy person to do in these fictional universes? Luckily there are options, some of which are arguably cooler than trying to balance on some stupid piece of custodial equipment.
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Health Reform Without Apology
The Affordable Care Act is under relentless attack from conservatives. Yet progressives are too ambivalent about defending it.
The passage of health-care reform in March 2010 is the most progressive expansion of U.S. government social policy in nearly half a century and perhaps without parallel in its scope since Social Security's enactment in 1935. The law—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)—expands access to medical care and health insurance to more than 30 million low- and middle-income Americans; imposes much of the cost on affluent individuals and businesses; terminates longstanding practices by parts of the private insurance industry that victimized millions of sick Americans even after they'd paid premiums for decades; elevates health and prevention as a priority; and launches the most comprehensive set of initiatives and experiments to date to restrain both government and private-sector expenditures on medical care and claw back inefficient spending to help pay for widening access.
Today's partisan vitriol readily explains why Republicans vociferously oppose the ACA, even though core components (like the individual mandate) were hatched years ago by Republican policy-makers and conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. What is surprising is the reaction of many progressives, who are subdued about or even hostile to the new law, lamenting it as inadequate and overly accommodating to vested interests. Twenty-six percent of Americans favor repealing the ACA because it did not go far enough, according to a Politico/George Washington University poll in May.
Progressive disaffection with the most liberal social welfare legislation in at least a generation may stem from the failure to enact single-payer financing or a compulsory national public option. Some skeptics focus on the inadequacy of the ACA compared to health-care systems in other affluent democracies. But most people and many progressives are disaffected—at least from my talks to community, business, and university audiences—because they are unaware of what the ACA did enact. When I describe the actual provisions in the ACA, I am repeatedly asked, "How come I haven't heard that before?" Fair question.
Remedy and Reaction comes at an opportune time to break through the misunderstandings and falsehoods about health reform, and its author, Paul Starr, is ideally positioned to take on this daunting responsibility. Starr is a founding co-editor of The American Prospect and author of The Social Transformation of American Medicine, a deservedly well-regarded history of American medical care and health policy that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Remedy and Reaction concisely explains what often seems inexplicable—why about 50 million Americans lack health insurance even as the country leads the world in health-care expenditures, accounting for more than 17 percent of GDP.
Remedy and Reaction's comprehensive history of health-care reform from the early twentieth century through the passage of the ACA traces the slow, torturous, and often futile efforts of reformers to expand health insurance to all Americans. Reform was persistently obstructed by conservatives and the swelling army of interests devoted to protecting the status quo by exploiting James Madison's byzantine institutional miasma and the fissures within both parties (especially the Democratic Party). Opponents repeatedly defeated national health insurance and shaped the reforms that were passed, imprinting significant new programs with the constraints, limitations, and selectivity demanded by stakeholders and political coalitions.
The "perennial disappointment" of liberals who sought health insurance for all has a long history, beginning at the end of the Progressive Era, when European interventions gave impetus in the United States to national and state reform efforts (instigated by the expert-led American Association for Labor Legislation) that were blocked by divisions among allies (including labor) and by the insurance industry—even before it had established a giant stake in the sector. The Great Depression created the extraordinary opportunity that accompanies extraordinary crisis, but Franklin Roosevelt judiciously held back on national health insurance to ensure passage of Social Security in 1935, and though they tried, he and successor Harry Truman never enjoyed a similar opening again.
Reformers regrouped in the late 1950s around what became the Medicare legislation that Lyndon Johnson signed into law in 1965—an approach that scaled back progressives' universal aims in favor of covering hospital care and associated physician services for those on Social Security and solidifying a federal-state program for the indigent (Medicaid). Starr describes this episode as representing a "brilliant [political] coup" for LBJ, but "not exactly a liberal one." Medicare, Starr reports, became a "source of the persistent inequalities and high costs of the American health-care system."
Remedy and Reaction then charts the stalemate and incremental reform of the nearly three decades following Medicare's passage. Comprehensive reform was scuttled by ideological battles between the parties and divisions among Democrats as well as by fiscal constraints. But reform did not stop. Starr highlights the "unexpected course" pursued by Ronald Reagan, who talked of dismantling the New Deal but signed on to substantially expanding Medicaid and created direct federal control of Medicare's reimbursements, which began with hospitals and was widened by subsequent presidents to physicians and outpatient services. (In a striking historical paradox, Reagan's inauguration of this government payment system for Medicare created the precedent for later progressive proposals for rate regulation that would extend to private providers.)
The book devotes extensive attention to the defeat of Bill Clinton's effort—one in which, Starr notes, he played a role as an adviser. His recounting of the well-known context and contours of Clinton's effort offers a fair enough guide to readers who are just coming to health reform or care to relive the trauma of 1993-94. Starr acknowledges the missteps by the Clintons but assigns the balance of culpability to the "center fail[ing]"—the "deals that were never closed… compromises never reached, [and] backpedalling by Republicans, moderate Democrats, and key interest groups that abandoned proposals they had earlier endorsed."
He is absolutely correct that accommodation and compromise with stakeholders and legislators is necessary to build winning coalitions. This is the defining feature of nearly all successful major social reforms, and it explains Starr's mixed assessment of the original Medicare legislation. For the Clinton effort, the question is whether the center failed, as Starr puts it, or if it never existed in the first place for the complex reform that Clinton proposed. After all, Clinton came into office hobbled by a weak mandate after failing to win a majority in the 1992 elections and, in familiar constraint to observers of recent reform efforts, Democrats failed to win the 60 seats in the Senate that were critical to overcoming a filibuster.
Republicans capitalized on their subsequent 1994 congressional wins to push for restructuring Medicare and Medicaid, but they "over reached and were forced to retreat." Both parties pulled back from unwinnable systemic reform over the next decade—Clinton tinkered with private insurance and expanded access for children, while George W. Bush ushered in the largest expansion of Medicare since its inception by cajoling congressional Republicans to create prescription drug coverage, though without dedicated funding.
The 2010 health reform justifiably receives the most attention. Remedy and Reaction concisely limns the context: the acceleration of the problems that Clinton had sought to tackle—shrinking access, skyrocketing costs, and inefficiency—along with the coalescing of reformers around the "Massachusetts Model" of subsidized and regulated private insurance markets. The book's longest chapter is devoted to describing the process by which the ACA passed.
Remedy and Reaction ably synthesizes previous research on the history of health reform. Unfortunately, though, it is not a guide for those wanting to learn about what the ACA does in concrete terms and the historic departures it makes from America's long history of defeat. That's a shame given the book's outlining of the historic backdrop of the 2010 reform and Starr's record as an accomplished scholar and editor devoted to communicating broadly. Remedy and Reaction's discussion of what the ACA does is encased in a seminar on "public philosophy" that is somewhat helpful to a small group of scholars but is nearly useless for everyday readers (including dejected progressives). The previously readable prose is replaced by jargon and belabored hairsplitting.
Moreover, Remedy and Reaction belittles the outcome of negotiations that lawmakers pursued to win the center and survive the booby-trapped legislative process—the very process of finding compromises and striking deals that he believes was needed to save the Clinton plan. Starr has been on record elsewhere as a supporter of the ACA, and his book does note that "rarely has a big reform been so widely dismissed as too small even by many of those who supported it." But the dominant outlook in Remedy and Reaction is that the ACA is a "minimally invasive model" that is "notable for what it leaves unchanged." Jettisoning the American context that it charts in its previous chapters, the book adopts a series of abstract standards by which to judge the ACA—it is "comparatively limited" vis-à-vis other democracies, falls short of the "ideal remedies" favored by advocates of single-payer financing and a nationally compulsory public option, and fails to create a "new system."
Plain, simple words convey three important payoffs that are significant departures in American health reform history. First, access is substantially expanded: Seniors with drug bills are rescued from the "doughnut hole" left by President Bush; new subsidies are directed at middle-income Americans (up to about $90,000 annually for families of four) who had been unable to afford private insurance; and the poor are shielded from savage state rules—for the first time, there are minimum national eligibility standards set above the poverty line (at 133 percent), including coverage for poor people without children (many states had previously excluded them).
Second, the ACA transforms the insurance industry from one that avoids risk by dodging (or dropping) the ill and those susceptible to costly medical care. Instead, it requires insurers to cover everyone (including the children of the insured up to age 26) and to devote at least 80 percent of their customers' premiums to providing and improving medical care.
Third, the ACA pays for its initial nearly $1 trillion cost by recouping billions from private insurers in Medicare Advantage and pharmaceutical and medical device suppliers, and by enacting "hidden" tax reform—an increase in the existing Medicare's payroll tax for the affluent and, in a breakthrough for social insurance financing, a new Medicare tax on capital gains. Much depends on implementation, of course, but the range and diversity of its efforts to restrain health inflation are without precedent—for example, establishing a Federal Reserve-like independent commission to restrain health expenditures in the face of lobbying by vested interests.
The dreary drumbeat about the ACA's minimalism and limits that courses through the coverage by mainstream and progressive media fosters unilateral disarmament in the face of a mobilized conservative onslaught. It fuels the misperception that the ACA is not worth fighting for and distracts from the dire need for counter-mobilization. It also diminishes the urgency of forming coalitions and tactical alliances with an expanding coterie of strange bedfellows—state Republican officials, businesses (including state chambers of commerce), and a host of stakeholders whose support for the ACA has remained or who have dropped their earlier opposition (as in the case of insurers) as interests and opportunities have changed.
The states are a central arena for health reform, and the stakes are high for our own time as well as for future battles. But Starr focuses on the national stage and neglects the critical importance of what is happening in the states. Although the most progressive reforms were defeated in Washington, D.C., Vermont is moving toward creating a single-payer system, and Oregon and perhaps other states are heading in the direction of a public option. State flexibility has also ushered in a nearly unnoticed and highly significant engagement of state Republican officeholders. While the media portrays a ferocious unified conservative opposition to the ACA, key components of health reform (especially the new insurance "exchanges") are being planned and implemented in GOP-controlled swing states (including the conservative Republican administrations of John Kasich in Ohio and Scott Walker in Wisconsin) as well as generally red states like Mitch Daniels's Indiana and conservative bastions like Haley Barbour's Mississippi. What's going on in the states deserves concentrated attention and creative coalition building.
How the 2012 elections play out will be decisive not only, of course, for control of the President's veto pen but also for control of Congress. The Senate's arcane rules will pose stark challenges to outright repeal (as they did to enactment) even if the ACA's implementation suffers delays or selective eviscerations. Shifting alliances and new interests may dampen efforts to repeal health reform: Well-organized Medicare beneficiaries who vote at high rates can be organized to fight hard against cuts to their new benefits; the scaling back of new protections against insurance marauders should elicit vociferous protests from consumer groups and congressional constituents (including those in Republican districts); insurers themselves may well push for the individual mandate (or a similar mechanism) if they continue to be required by law to accept all comers. The stickiness of administrative law may make a quick dismantling of new insurance regulations more daunting than currently imagined. (Republican leaders have begun to shift from "repeal" to "repeal and replace" and, more recently, to "waivers," which appears to concede implicitly that the ACA's basic framework survives.)
Meanwhile, the constitutional challenges that will be heard by the Supreme Court have been resisted and reframed by most lower courts of appeal. Although perhaps not likely, some of the Supreme Court justices—including some of the Republican appointees—may see institutional wisdom (as the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals recommended) in ducking the highly political case for the time being. The justice likely to cast the decisive vote on the Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy, has a history of pragmatism that may leave him unwilling to approve the full repeal or gutting that conservatives seek. Even if the Court does strike down the individual mandate, there are other mechanisms to discourage free riding that lawmakers or the Administration could adopt. As the Government Accounting Office reported earlier this year, enrollment could be encouraged by imposing fees for signing up late, making it easier to join by extending assistance to individuals, and conducting effective public outreach—a strategy used by Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s to swell enrollment in the voluntary part of Medicare above initial estimates.
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There are actually two modes of operation for a VoltDB database: normal operation and admin mode. During normal operation clients can connect to the cluster and invoke stored procedures (as allowed by the security permissions set in the application catalog and deployment files). In admin mode, only clients connected through a special admin port are allowed to initiate stored procedures. Requests received from any other clients are rejected.
The goal of admin mode is to quell database activity prior to executing sensitive administrative functions. By entering admin mode, it is possible to ensure that no changes are made to the database contents during operations such as save, restore, or updating the runtime catalog.
You initiate admin mode by calling the @Pause system procedure through the admin port. The admin port works just like the regular client port and can be called through any of the standard VoltDB client interfaces (such as Java or JSON) by specifying the admin port number when you create the client connection.
Once the database enters admin mode, any requests received over the client port are rejected, returning a status of ClientResponse.SERVER_UNAVAILABLE. The client application can check for this response and resubmit the transaction after a suitable pause.
By default the admin port is 21211, but you can specify an alternate admin port using the <admin-mode> tag in the deployment file. For example:
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Once admin mode is turned on, VoltDB processes requests received over the admin port only. Once you are ready to resume normal operation, you must call the system procedure @Resume through the admin port.
By default, a VoltDB database starts in normal operating mode. However, you can tell the database to start in admin mode by adding the adminstartup attribute to the <admin-mode> tag in the deployment file. For example:
<admin-mode port="9999" adminstartup="true" />
When adminstartup is set to true, the database starts in admin mode. No activity is allowed over the standard client port until you explicitly stop admin mode with the voltadmin resume command or a call to the @Resume system procedure.
Starting in admin mode can be very useful, especially if you want to perform some initialization on the database prior to allowing client access. For example, it is recommended that you start in admin mode if you plan to manually restore a snapshot or prepopulate the database with data through a set of custom stored procedures. For example, the following commands restore a snapshot, then exit admin mode once the initialization is complete:
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It's been another banner year for Xbox in terms of sales-related announcements. US analyst DFC Intelligence predicts that the Xbox 360 will ultimately outsell the Wii in the US, too, becoming the nation's best-selling current gen console.
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It's quite a challenge for co-directors Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, although the decision to cast several different roles per actor seems a good way of visually demonstrating the links between the various stories.
Take a look at the new trailer, below…
It's tricky for a two-minute trailer to attempt to sum up such a convoluted narrative, and it seems as though the marketing team have settled upon playing up the "everything is connected" angle. That point is actually laboured somewhat here, although hopefully it will be less heavily handled in the finished article.
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I'm curious how an orbital drop would function for a drop troops regiment. Specifically, in the case of a planetary invasion how would things play out. Mostly what confuses me is how the troopers air support (i.e. Valkyries and variants) get planetside. I can imagine that a drop ship could carry a company to a "reasonable" altitude and that they could then do a HALO jump off the rear ramp. They could even push there drop sentinels out of the craft and make sure to have some light armor support that way. How do Valkyries and potentially and Tauros assault vehicles get planetside though? Do the troops have to secure a landing zone where such equipment can be unloaded and (in the case of the aircraft) set up for atmospheric operations? Looking at the lexicanum page it doesn't look like Valkyries are capable of orbital flight but… maybe I'm missing something somewhere? Thoughts anyone?
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Posted 14 February 2013 - 09:42 AM
IIRC, the Valkyre (and its variants) has a very limited aerospace capacity. So the troopship enters low orbit, and the Valkyre/Vulture/Sky Talon can cover the rest.
Posted 14 February 2013 - 10:23 AM
I had thought that was the case, but I see specific mentions on the page for thunderbolts and lightning saying they have a limited capacity to operate in space. I don't see anything like that on the Valyrie's page, though I do see a similar entry for the Valkyries abiility to operate in a hostile environment by using an onboard oxygen supply. It could simply be a mistake in the article though since I don't currently have access to the Imperial Armour entry for Valkyries.
Posted 14 February 2013 - 11:33 AM
use grav chutes, it is a jetpack like device that basically only provides enough thrust to slow down their fall. They are good for limited use and normally used by elysians to drop in from valkyries (going from low orbit would probably use more fuel then the thing can carry). I recently used them in test run for my next campaign and they work well.
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I just looked up the Valkyrie entry in Imperial Armour Volume One. The relevant sentence is "The Valkyrie is an atmospheric aircraft and cannot operate in the vacuum of space, although it can be sealed against hostile environments." Maybe it can still drop from LEO? Or do you mean a carrier would get low enough to actually be hovering in the atmosphere? That would be… really really cool (although not really useful for covert drops I would think) but isn't particulary useful for the mission I'm planning since the regiment is acting as mercs for a Rogue Trader and are deploying from his Dauntless, not a carrier, which I doubt would be capable of those kind of operations.
The other side of this argument would be pointing out that the Dictator was originally used to support ground assaults as a sort of mobile airbase; but I think it would probably more be deploying fighters that escorted shuttles down to the surface. A thought though.
Posted 14 February 2013 - 09:18 PM
You might need an Argus Lighter or Aquila Lander if you intend to get in and out of the atmosphere at will.
Posted 15 February 2013 - 02:36 AM
The grav chutes used by drop infantry and their light vehicles cannot be used from immense heights, but are instead essentially a high tech parachute.
Ive not come across anything that says the imperial guard use dropships to deploy valkyries from, but ive come across plenty that says that aeronautica assets can be deployed from low orbit because of their rocket engines:
"Like the Lightning, the Thunderbolt is equipped with a Promethium-fueled rocket engine, maneuvering thrusters and an ablative ventral surface that provides it with a limited trans-atmospheric operations capability. However, this capability was provided only for transportation and deployment from an Imperial Navy starship into a planetary atmosphere and was not intended for space combat, which means the Thunderbolt is not a true starfighter, a role normally filled by the Fury space superiority fighter"
What this means is that a Navy vessel can show up in orbit and deploy aeronautica to the planets atmosphere to clear a landing zone for drop ships. Once these have landed and set up a forward base, valkyries and other assets can be deployed to then fly drop troops into location and then grav-chute them out.
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Posted 16 February 2013 - 06:31 PM
And to add something from a GW source:
"Valkyries are capable of atmospheric insertion, being launched from Imperial Navy carriers in low orbit. Such formations are at great risk from interception by enemy fighters during these operations, for the Valkyrie is much less manoeuvrable in space. As such, assault formations are often accompanied by Imperial Navy fighter squadrons in order to defend them against enemy fighters. Organisationally, most Valkyrie formations are part of the Imperial Navy and based on Naval assault carriers. They are called on to transport infantry regiments and rarely serve alongside a ground-based army beyond the scope of a single campaign."
If you are looking for an example of perfect teamplay between Valkyries and drop troops, you may also want to check out this strike force datasheet:
Posted 17 February 2013 - 08:47 AM
The Shark assault boat listed in Rogue trader: Battlefleet Koronus carries 50 troops and operates in squadrons of eight for a total of 400 troops per trip to the surface. This is just about a company. An Orbital carrier with 2 launch bays configured with all assault boats (Somewhat unlikely but it works for concept!) could land 48 landers in a single sortie! This would land 2400 infantry on the ground in one wave! According to the Battlefleet gothic fluff this was the original purpose of the Dictator class cruiser but it was later fitted to use standard starfighters and bombers.
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:23 AM
Lunatas post is very good. The concept that Valkyries can descend from orbit is quite awesome but I imagine that the imperium prefere to set up a base of operations on the ground before making great drops
Posted 17 February 2013 - 09:59 AM
I imagine it goes something like this:
A firebase is secured on the ground, either because there's already an Imperial presence or through a light orbital bombardment. Dropships and little cargo things like the Arvus Lighter ferry men and gear down to the surface; this could easily include Valkyries that have been disassembled. From this firebase, the Valkyries can take off to transport the troops to the battlefield.
There's a Valkyrie variant known as a Sky Talon that trades troop capacity for the ability to carry either a Tauros or two Drop Sentinels. I also think I read somewhere that there's a grav-chute equivalent for vehicles, but I might just be crazy.
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Autism and Growing Concerns Over Chemicals
How is this going to affect families, schools, our country and our economy?
And how do we stop it? Because while the jury is still out as to what is exactly pulling the trigger on this condition, doctors across the country, seeing increasing numbers of autistic children in their practices are speaking out about the steps that can be taken to help exercise precaution.
Last year, the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center (CEHC) released a list of the top ten toxic chemicals suspected to cause autism and learning disabilities.
This list can't come soon enough, as according to the CDC, just ten years ago, the condition impacted 1 in 150 children. Today, it affects 1 in 50 American kids.
And while there is controversy over how those numbers are reached, it still is worth repeating. There has been a 74% increase in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in the last four years. At the same time, the CDC also reported that ADHD now affects 14% of American children.
As these conditions continue to affect more children across the U.S., researchers are asking what is causing these dramatic increases. Some of the explanation is greater awareness and more accurate diagnosis. But clearly, there is more to the story than simply genetics, as the increases are far too rapid to be of purely genetic origin.
According to the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center (CEHC) and data from the research article, "Environmental Pollutants and Disease in American Children (July 2002), "the National Academy of Sciences reports that 3% of all neurobehavioral disorders in children are caused directly by toxic exposure in the environment and another 25% disorders are caused by interactions between environmental factors and genetics. But the precise environmental causes are not yet known".
So while industry can claim that there is little evidence that these chemicals in isolation or in combination (which doctors now refer to as "synergistic toxicity") cause autism, the truth is that there is still very little evidence or the toxicological safety studies. In other words, there is a gap in the science.
There is a huge gap. According to CNN, the EPA has tested only about 200 of the 80,000 chemicals in use.
But thankfully, that is changing with the work of the team at Mt. Sinai and the extraordinary leadership, courage and intellect of Dr. Phil Landrigan and the urgent call by experts to reform chemical laws. And he's not alone, pediatricians around the country are calling for urgent action.
To guide a research strategy to discover potentially preventable environmental causes and to arm parents and those hoping to be parents with knowledge, the Children's Environmental Health Center (CEHC) has developed a list of ten chemicals found in consumer products that are suspected to contribute to autism and learning disabilities. This is not a 'one size fits all' solution, but rather, a list of steps parents can take to exercise precaution given how little we know.
This list was published in Environmental Health Perspectives in an editorial written by Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, director of the CEHC, Dr. Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and Dr. Luca Lambertini, also of the CEHC.
The top ten chemicals are:
- Lead
- Methylmercury
- PCBs
- Organophosphate pesticides
- Organochlorine pesticides
- Endocrine disruptors
- Automotive exhaust
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Brominated flame retardants
- Perfluorinated compounds
As the Children's Environmental Health Center shares, the editorial was published alongside four other papers — each suggesting a link between toxic chemicals and autism. Both the editorial and the papers originated at a conference hosted by CEHC in December 2010.
The first paper, written by a team at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, found preliminary evidence linking smoking during pregnancy to Asperger's disorder and other forms of high-functioning autism. The next two papers, written by researchers at the University of California – Davis, show that PCBs disrupt early brain development. The final paper, also by a team at UC – Davis, suggests further exploring the link between pesticide exposure and autism.
Ultimately, all five papers call for increased research to identify the possible environmental causes of autism in America's children.
This importance of this call to action can not be emphasized enough, because while our children may only represent 30% of our population, they are 100% of our future and we need to protect them like our country depends on it. Because it does.
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Tia is a very lovable little girl, she is very interested in looking around and investigating. Tia is a scared girl, she needs to be in a home where she is the only pet. She does not need alot of excitment, meaning not alot of people running to cuddle her and pick her up, she is terrified of that. NO DOG PARKS. Tia would do best in a home that is quiet. She is ok for going for walks as long as there are no other dogs around. Tia has a very distinct look, one ear up and one ear down, she is adorable. Tia is microchipped, spayed and UTD on shots, now we just need to find her a home that she can call her own. Tia was a stray when brought into the shelter, as soon as we saw her we couldn't help but fall in love with her. we had to get her out. Tia is a beautiful girl with alot of love we just need to find the right fit for her
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Tia, a Vancouver Chihuahua/Dachshund puppy was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Chihuahua/Dachshund for sale in Vancouver, or seeking a Chihuahua/Dachshund puppy from a breeder in Vancouver.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Vancouver already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Vancouver breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Chihuahua/Dachshund breeders who help with Chihuahua/Dachshund rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Vancouver paves the way for another one to be saved.


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I can't help myself. {must organize}
I have forms that have been on my "to do" list since the start of this school year and they have been "calling to me" to finalize. I had spent an extra amount of time, more than I normally do with my lovely New Bees {which I soak up every bit and thoroughly savor} because they needed it this year and so now you are receiving the products of all this pent-up organizing fever. {fever is still high}
I was wondering too how long do you wait until you bind your planner? This sounds so opposite of my crazed organizing mood right now but I wait a week or longer before I bind. I won't rush to bind as I want to be sure I have everything I want in it and placed where I want it at.
Because of that, this year on my back cover I wanted some homeschool quotes as inspiration. So on one side of my back cover I have pictures and the other side I will have the back cover pictured above with quotes.
Tip: Remember your laminating needs to go past the edge of the paper so printing your pictures and any back cover can be printed to the very edge as it will not interfere with the binding.
Sometimes I just have a plain back cover but it really is a waste.
About the Student Monthly Progress Report. This report was designed to be used from K to 12th as I kept it very general in comments. A progress report is just that progress so you can gauge. These progress reports can go in your Student's Planner at the end of each month.
Too, if you still divide your planner out by 30 lessons (to correspond with months) then you can put some of these at the end of your monthly section.
Myself? I don't like to divide by 30 days as I have done it that many, many years and always felt behind if we got off track. We are not behind and I won't have my planner saying so. We are just living life.
I prefer a separate section for "Monthly Calendar/Appointments" and for "Progress Reports". So these sheets will be a separate tab in my planner marked "Progress Reports".
Download Student Monthly Progress Report
I realize too that so many are beginning their journey without every attending public school and it is scary.
At that time I too wanted some kind of gauge to measure by to see if my son was on target. So the next two forms are a Preschool Progress Report and a Kindergarten Evaluation Report.
About the Preschool Progress Report. This report is monthly and will guide you to see what also needs to be included as you introduce your precious baby to learning. There is a key at the top to help with grading as I realize some of you too have to turn in progress reports.
About the Kindergarten Evaluation Report. Because Kindergarten is really the grade we feel that we are "formally" schooling, I provided a way to evaluate Kindergarten. This form I used BEFORE my sons entered Kindergarten but it also good to do in the middle or end to see where your child is along in his development.
Download Preschool Progress Report here.
Download Kindergarten Evaluation Report here.
You can take comfort if you find that your child is ahead in most of these skills. We need that reassurance and realize we can relax and enjoy these tender years.
I was looking back this morning on each of my son's progress and my comments at that age and I am an old sap and tears came. When you see the blessing of your hard work, it is very satisfying. Chart your progress and comment about your fears, then we'll cry happy tears together as our children progress.
At this time of the year, when it's the end of the year, I tend to be more emotional as we go into another year of homeschooling.
I am thankful to be able to continue into this next year.
By the way, these forms are not on the site yet. For my newer followers, ya'll always get my forms first then I eventually upload to the site. So be sure to download from this blog post if you want them.
Hugs to you,
My quote for today as I reflect on another homeschool year that has past and look forward to the new year and share this beautiful winter wonderland with you,
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
~Dr. Seuss~
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Sunburn and deer ticks and snakes, oh my! No matter what type of outdoor activities you enjoy, it's important to put safety first. Come discover some of the most commonly encountered hazards of the summer outdoors, and how you can safely avoid them, on this 1-mile walk in the woods. Meet at Point Trailhead parking lot.
8:00-9:00 pm – Alien Invaders!
An invasion is taking place at Prince Gallitzin State Park, and probably even in your own backyard! Find out who's trying to overrun our neighborhoods and what you can do to stop these non-native invasive species. Gather at the amphitheater for this program featuring a slideshow, and meet some local "alien" species. Parking is available for non-campers.
Sunday, May 26
1:00-3:00 pm – Nature at the Beach
Stop by the nature table at the campground beach for some hands-on learning! Discover the interesting world of insects, and chat with the park naturalist.
3:30-5:00 pm – Animal Signs Adventure
The hunt is on! Come learn about the clues animals leave behind. Then search for some on your own in a scavenger-type hunt. Prizes will be given for completing the hunt. Meet at the amphitheater.
Monday, May 27
10:00 am-12:00 pm – Nature at the Pond
Stop by the nature table at Pickerel Pond for some hands-on learning! See if you can identify some common animal signs, and gather tips for finding some on your own.
1:00-3:00 pm – Nature at the Beach
Stop by the nature table on the patio at Muskrat Beach #2 for some hands-on learning! See if you can identify some common animal signs, and gather tips for finding some on your own.
For more information, contact Beth Garner, Environmental Education Specialist, at 814-674-1000 ext. 105 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. An online calendar of events with information on upcoming programs can also be found at www.visitPAparks.com.
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Rochester, N.Y. It took four hours of deliberation until jurors found Dawn Nguyen guilty of falsifying business records, and now her processing photo has been released by Monroe County Sheriffs.
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Sun, Mar 31, 13 at 11:51
We bought a triple palm and are wondering if we can split them up and plant separately. Will that harm the root system? Also how can we prevent the dates from growing or blooming? |
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I have two of these growing in pots, which were in the same pot originally. I split them in mid summer and both of them look great still so I'm assuming it can be done since mine were successful. Just be careful and try untangle as many roots as possible trying not to tear. Also if there are any that are to hard to untangle, I have heard its better to cut them the rip them. That's what i did and it worked out for me. As for the other questions I'm really not sure. Good Luck! |
- Posted by miketropic 6B - 7 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 31, 13 at 19:15
you can separate them like stated above, make sure the knife is clean and sterile if you do any cutting. I would bet they are seperate palms anyway and not suckers from one plant so it shouldn't be hard to separate them. to keep the dates from growing whenever you see a flower stalk come out just cut it off. the dates don't appear till after it flowers..no flowers no dates.. |
- Posted by orchiddude 7b ALabama (My Page) on Tue, Apr 2, 13 at 20:10
I had a big pot of these and took a saw and cut right down the middle, potted them up and they grew fine. There is no way you can untangle roots if you have a big thick root ball. Go for it, they will be ok. |
- Posted by central_cali369 USDA z9b/ Sunset z9 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 5, 13 at 14:11
Pygmy date palms don't really have "dates." Yes, they bloom and bear fruit but their fruit is more of a small nut, than a date. There really isn't a sure fire way to prevent them from blooming. It's a natural process. It's like saying you want to prevent the wind from blowing lol. Just cut the bloom stalks and you won't ever have to worry about the nut clusters. |
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Boys Basketball: Tyler Ulis among Chicago-area products who sparkle in McDonald's All-American game
By Michael O'Brien For Sun-Times Media April 2, 2014 11:18PM
Tyler Ulis runs the floor during the in the McDonald's All-American Game. | Worsom Robinson/For Sun-Times Media
Updated: May 5, 2014 8:32AM
Legacy is an odd thing for a teenager to think about. Rarely does anyone have to worry about the mark he or she has left on the world before turning 20.
That's exactly what was on Jahlil Okafor's mind this month. The 18-year-old wanted a state championship. He went out and won one. He wanted to end his high school career as a winner. He accomplished that Wednesday night at the United Center, leading the West to a 105-102 win over the East in front of 17,116 fans in the McDonald's All-American game.
"I've definitely been thinking about my legacy," Okafor said. "I've been asked the question a lot. That was one of the motivating factors for the state championship."
Okafor and Curie's Cliff Alexander were introduced last, the local heroes and headlining stars of the game.
"I had chills when the crowd started cheering for me," Okafor said. "I really wanted to win this game, it being my last time playing in Chicago as a high schooler."
Okafor finished with 17 points (8-of-15 shooting) and seven rebounds. His dunk with 38 seconds to play put the West ahead for good.
"I just had to make sure I wasn't too caught up in my thoughts," Okafor said. "I had to make sure to go out and have fun."
Okafor shared co-MVP honors with Justin Jackson (Tomball, Texas), who scored a game-high 23 points. Okafor is the first local player to win MVP honors since Eddy Curry in 2001. Okafor has spent his entire career being compared to Curry, the area's last great post player.
"I didn't know he won the award," Okafor said. "With the game being in my city I thought it would be nice to have."
Alexander played the game with a brace on his right wrist. He injured it Monday in the dunk contest. The 6-foot-9 Kansas recruit scored nine points and grabbed 11 rebounds but missed two dunks.
"No excuses," he said. "The wrist felt fine, a lot better than (Tuesday). I was just missing dunks."
Marian Catholic's Tyler Ulis played with Okafor on the West. Ulis scored five and dished off three assists.
"To be honest I didn't even notice the big crowd," said Ulis, the two-time SouthtownStar Player of the Year. "It was just a game to me once it got started."
Ulis and Okafor seemed to have instant chemistry. Ulis found Okafor for a dunk midway through the first half, part of a 9-0 run. With all the points coming from Ulis and Okafor.
It was interesting to watch. Ulis spent his entire high school career without a big man on his team. This game provided a preview of what his floor sense and passing ability will contribute to the high-level athletes he will team with at Kentucky.
"It was great," Ulis said. "(Okafor) is humongous. You just get him the ball and he will finish every time."