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The calendar for the 2012-13 school year began on Aug. 6 and stretches all the way to June 15.
Has Michigan finally and dramatically expanded the number of days that students will spend in public school classrooms? And therefore ended an era when a post-Labor Day start and varying degrees of snowfall could result in an academic year of fewer than 160 days? Nah. That calendar is for sports.
Per the Michigan High School Athletic Association, boys football practice began a month before the official Sept. 4 school start. By the end of the second week of school on Friday, the regular season will be nearly half over. The finals for boys baseball is scheduled for June 15.
The culture of sports is alive and well in a state where there are few complaints that prized school activities operate on a near year-round basis.
The culture of education in Michigan? Judging from the academic calendar alone, not so much, if that culture is defined as one that promotes student growth across all classes of income in every corner of the state. And which recognizes that the state's economic future just might depend on it.
Implicit in all the attention paid to the legislative hot spots of school employee benefit costs and the genuine crisis of chronic failure in the bottom rank of students is an acceptance that most school districts in Michigan are doing a reasonably acceptable job. Outside of tougher high school content standards, policy-makers in Lansing have a bipartisan view that broad-based education reform is unnecessary. Unfortunately, the testing that now accompanies those higher standards reveals that many school districts with middle-class enrollments aren't as good as they think they are.
Backers of teacher tenure reform designed to identify poor performing teachers acknowledge that the vast majority of teachers in Michigan in fact perform pretty well. Expansion of school choice through charters or cyber schools will affect a small fraction of the state's more than 1.5 million K-12 students. The new Education Achievement Authority addresses only the worst-performing schools through the installation of new building management armed with the power to hire the best instructors.
But school reform restricted to choice and reclamation efforts offers little to parents who like their present district just fine. That's one of the reasons they bought a house there. But ask parents in those districts what more they want from their schools and they'll likely say that school reform for all means more classroom time with fewer students in each class. That sentiment reflects the nagging concern that their children should be doing better.
Too bad that a Legislature that has opened the door to cyber K-12 education unimaginable a decade ago still sanctions a school year designed for the agrarian demands of a century ago. Or that the 210-day school year planned in the Educational Authority's initial effort in Detroit is being applauded even as lawmakers have decided that 170 days is sufficient for everyone else.
Parents who would like their children out of the house and back in school by mid-August have to wonder why the start of school is delayed until after Labor Day for the benefit of the tourism industry, when athletic contests are scheduled for the Labor Day weekend. For high school students in volleyball or the band, school started weeks ago. And how many parents, after paying for three full months of summer day care for their elementary age children, can afford both back-to-school expenses and a late summer vacation?
Those 170 days of classroom instruction for the current academic year is up from 165. But subtract six school closure days for "severe storms, fires, epidemics," etc. and you can see how little progress is being made. The new funding bill, moreover, leaves intact the same minimum number of instructional hours: 1,098. Districts that will be adding days to the school calendar are now free to shave minutes off of each school day.
That increase from 165 to 170 in the 2012-2013 school year, by the way, was approved back in 2009. As the fiscal 2013 budget contains no such preparatory language that puts district on notice that 190 instructional days, say, will be in place come 2016, Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers appear to be comfortable with a policy that 170 days will be sufficient for years to come.
How that squares with "value for money" budgeting is unclear as Michigan spends $15 billion on public education pretty much regardless of how many instructional days are mandated. Of the $14.6 billion spent on public education in FY 2011, according to state data, $11.6 billion -- or 79.6 percent -- was allocated for salaries and benefits. Wouldn't taxpayers receive greater value if the academic calendar matched the one for athletics?
Just because not every school in Michigan is failing, doesn't mean that most schools are succeeding in real-world terms. At the high school level, the content is more rigorous, the testing more accurate and yet the school year remains pretty much the same length. It makes no sense.
The latest statewide average composite ACT score reported this summer by the Michigan Department of Education was 19.6 out of a possible 36. Just 17.7 percent of students who took the test met the testing group's rigorous standards that assess ability to succeed in college.
Some two dozen public high school semi-finalists in last year's multi-divisional football playoffs represent a cross-section of the state. And while their gridiron prowess was anything but average, their ACT scores were: an average of 20 with 19.5 percent considered college ready.
If only the time spent in the classroom preparing for life was deemed as valuable as time spent on the practice field preparing for Friday night.
Peter Luke was a Lansing correspondent for Booth Newspapers for nearly 25 years, writing a weekly column for most of that time with a concentration on budget, tax and economic development policy issues. He is a graduate of Central Michigan University.


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The Mystery Cruise (Boxcar Children #29)
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- The Aldens are taking a cruise on a beautiful ship. But a broken radio, a man overboard and the Boxcar Children are worried about some of the other passengers.
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- From the back of the book: Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar, but now they live with their grandfather. And he's taking them on a wonderful cruise in the Caribbean! No sooner has the cruise begun, than things start to go wrong. The ship's radio breaks. It appears someone has fallen overboard-but it turns out to be a false alarm. And then there's engine trouble. Is someone deliberately tampering with the ship? It's a mystery-and fortunately the Boxcar Children are on board!
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Intel DZ77GA-70K and Core i7-3770K Review
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Maybe we've got complacent. Maybe we've got greedy. Or maybe Intel knocked the Sandy Bridge range out of the park and it's a tough act to follow. However you look at it, the Intel Core i7-3770K is most definitely the Sophomore Slump. Don't get us wrong, it's by no means a bad processor at all. If the i7-2600K and i7-2700K didn't exist then we'd be flogging our granny to own one. It's just they do and this is much of the same. If I could use a metaphor at this point, and as I'm the person writing it I can, then the Z77GA-70K and i7-3770K combination is a lot like a bowl of Kellogs Frosties. You might be really excited to begin with, but it becomes clear quite soon that all you've got is tarted up Cornflakes. I happen to love Cornflakes.
Ahem. Let's start again. At its heart the i7-3770K is a i7-2600K with a reduced nm process and the upgrade of HD4000 integrated graphics rather than HD3000, coupled to the ability to run Memory at frankly insane speeds. It doesn't overclock in a particularly eye-popping manner. It hasn't got a wealth of instructions to make a mockery of its clock speed in the same way that a 2500K annihilates a Q6600. It's the same thing we're all used to, but with a bit of a spit and polish.
That's by no means a bad thing. The 2nd Generation CPUs from Intel are a near-perfect blend of performance and affordability. Even the X79 and i7-3960X didn't give us so much performance boost that we considered selling organs to pay for one, so perhaps it was ridiculous to expect the 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs to do so.
I'm very aware this reads like quite a downbeat conclusion. It's just this is exactly as excellent as the CPUs we already have. If you're in the market for an upgrade from system that's now a couple of generations old, then you couldn't do any better. If you disbelieve the hype then prepare to eat your hat, and shoes, and anything else you can find that is nutritious because this really is as good as everyone tells you that it is. But if you already have a decent LGA1155 setup, then you're probably better off waiting for a bit. The PCI Express 3.0 benefits are negligible. The HD4000 upgrade is good, but the HD3000 was no slouch and anyone wanting serious gaming would have a discreet solution anyway.
You'll notice I haven't mentioned the motherboard yet. That reasons are three-fold. Firstly almost nobody actually buys an Intel Motherboard, so it's a limited audience. Secondly we are saving our overclocking tests for another motherboard, so there isn't a huge amount to cover, and finally the pre-release BIOS on our model was dodgy at best, and would make it an exceptionally tough recommend under even the best of circumstances.
So if you haven't yet sampled the delights of the LGA1155 range stop reading right this very moment and hasten to your local emporium and exchange money for this box of treasures. In the same way that the previous generation was unquestionably OC3D Gold worthy, so the Core i7-3770K is too. It's just not worth upgrading from if you've already got one of those self-same 2nd Generation CPUs.
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I will just sort my cooling out for my current 2700K and see what speed I can get at decent temps and voltages.
Might be worth keeping my eye out for the next revision if they do one that oc's better with better temps for the voltages.Quote
I'm still on 1366. I'd only use MSI OC Genie to Overclock. For my upgrade, 2600K or 3770K? I can afford any of them.Quote
Some of the new boards look sweet, but the IB chips are just slightly more efficient SB chips which don't OC as well. To the couple people above me saying they're going to upgrade from SB to IB i say do NOT do it. There's no performance gains upgrading from SB to IB apart from the fact you can run memory much faster. Watch Tom's video review on it, he covers it all perfectly. The only time i'd upgrade from SB to IB is if i had a locked chip on a H67 chipset and wanted to get an unlocked IB chip with a Z77 board
I need to buy a new board and cpu. I understand that in this case I should get the ivy bridge cpu with a z77 board however they have sales on now for the 2600k or 2700k cpu. Would it be better to get the older chip with the z77 board or go with the Ivy bridge 3770k cput?Quote
Okay say and read the review however question for you.
I need to buy a new board and cpu. I understand that in this case I should get the ivy bridge cpu with a z77 board however they have sales on now for the 2600k or 2700k cpu. Would it be better to get the older chip with the z77 board or go with the Ivy bridge 3770k cput?
The z77 boards look nice though, they are a refinement of the 68s but again, not worth upgrading from 68s.
I totally agree with TTL, if you have SB/z68 stick with it, if you haven't then go IB/z77 unless the prices are more than about 15% greater in which case grab an SB/68 setup.Quote
Well there we are, it's pretty meh really (kind of as we expected). I can't see a reason to upgrade from SB cpu to IB unless you are running 2x pcie3 cards, in which case you might actually use the extra bandwidth. You never will with one card.
The z77 boards look nice though, they are a refinement of the 68s but again, not worth upgrading from 68s.
I totally agree with TTL, if you have SB/z68 stick with it, if you haven't then go IB/x77 unless the prices are more than about 15% greater in which case grab an SB/68 setup.
Aria are doing the 2600k for 209 at the mo,will be interesting in the least to see the price on Ivy,because unless I am missing a big something here,its a hard thing to justify going the extra.(those temps still have me worried,and yes I know its not the same thing,but they are still too high for me)Quote
i´m still on 775 !
would you recon a 3930k is better than a 3770k?Quote
not what i expected...
i´m still on 775 !
would you recon a 3930k is better than a 3770k?
I was expecting way more from the Ivy Bridge processors. I don't notice any overclocking results, are they yet to come?
Fantastic review as always Bryan
No doubt the 3930k is better. You have to remember the 3770k is not competing with the 3930k so you can't really compare the two. The 3930k wins hands down and given the price difference (once we know IB prices) it would have to
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i watched toms 2011 reviews again and the 3930k scores where higher then the 3770k ones!
are there different steppings or revisions for the 3930k?
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thanks for the quick response!
cheers mate!
i watched toms 2011 reviews again and the 3930k scores where higher then the 3770k ones!
are there different steppings or revisions for the 3930k?
thanks again
There is a C2 stepping, which has some improvements (not exactly sure what's changed though).
But i think we should reserve that gold sticker for when we get OCing results. I have seen a lot of other reviews where this chip gets VERY toasty when you put it past stock. It looks like they used TIM paste instead of fluxless solder between IHS and CPU die = 80's @ 4.6 while under water ( opposed to 50's/60's for a 2600k)
For an unlocked chip designed for OCing the temps have actually made this chip unappealing as an upgrade. People might as well pick up a 2600k cheap when the prices drop and they could get a higher clock = the same speeds over all. This is an enthusiast chip after all
Anyone who wants to upgrade should wait for another revision/ until they sort out the heat issuesQuote
SB is still an awesome processor hands down.
and only times will tell which is better. cause after watching Tom's review of the 3770k. im not so sure about the 3rd Gen.
Great review Bryan.Quote
I don't like to be pedantic, because the general point is a good one... but the measure of Watts is already a rate (a measure of energy used per second), so saving "1 watt per hour" doesn't make sense. You're just saving one Watt.
I know where you're coming from, but there are lots of people who don't know that - lots of people who find 'watts per hour' easier to understand.
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"We had a very smooth and seamless start to the school day," Principal Resia Brooks said, noting the help of the Shelby County Sheriff's Office and the Chelsea Citizen Observer Patrol to direct traffic. "It has been a picture perfect opening, a wonderful genesis."
Staff and volunteers at the kindergarten-through-fifth-grade school welcomed 748 students who were already enrolled this morning while several other new additions were finding their way to the 91,207-square-foot building.
Shelby County School District's newest facility boats 50 classrooms, a nearly 5,200-square-foot cafeteria dubbed "The Lunch Box," separate music and art rooms, a media center and library, and a 7,600-square-foot gymnasium that features a regulation-size basketball court with telescopic bleachers.
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Students seemed to have embraced their new surroundings today. "I like it," fourth-grader Parker Stallings said. "My favorite part is the gym. It's kind of like the high school's but instead of C.H.S. we have F.O.E.S." written in the gymnasium.
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There will also be pictures of current students hanging in the hallway near the cafeteria that are part of a fundraiser for the building. "Parents purchased these to raise money for the new school and to beautify our school," she said, pointing to a separate ongoing fundraiser involving the purchase of personalized bricks for a courtyard that has yet to be constructed.
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Penn State York will celebrate its 42nd annual spring commencement at 6 p.m. Friday, May 4, in the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center (The Pullo Center) on campus. The ceremony is free and open to the public. This will be the first spring commencement for Dr. Lisa Plowfield, chancellor of Penn State York, since she took the helm at the campus in August 2011.
For those who cannot attend the event, Penn State York's commencement can be viewed on Comcast cable channel 18 and streaming on the website.
Frederick Haag, associate professor of visual arts at Penn State York, is the commencement speaker. Haag was invited to give the commencement address in recognition of being named the recipient of an Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2012 Penn State Teaching Fellow. This is a great honor and Haag is one of only three recipients of this award from throughout Penn State.
The Penn State Alumni Association, in conjunction with undergraduate and graduate governing bodies, established the award in 1988. It honors distinguished teaching and provides encouragement and incentive for excellence in teaching. Recipients are expected to share their talent and expertise with others throughout the University during the year following the award presentation.
In addition to hearing from Haag, Penn State York will continue its tradition of the open microphone where graduates can speak for a moment. Eric R. Gallant, Dover, Pa., the top associate degree graduate; Shibani R. Chadha, Mumbai, India, the top baccalaureate degree graduate; and Teresa J. Wilson, Mt. Wolf, Pa., representing the master's degree graduates will also say a few words.
Penn State York will award 18 master of education in teaching and curriculum degrees; 75 baccalaureate degrees; 6 in bachelor of arts in communication arts and sciences; 7 bachelor of arts in English; 1 bachelor of arts in letters, arts, and sciences; 22 bachelor of science in business; 4 bachelor of science in electro-mechanical engineering technology; 19 bachelor of science in information sciences and technology; 12 bachelor of science in human development and family studies; 2 bachelor of science in nursing, and 2 bachelor of science in science. The campus will also award 21 associate degrees: 9 in business administration; 2 in electrical engineering technology; 3 in human development and family studies; 3 in information sciences and technology; 2 in letters, arts, and sciences (liberal arts); and 2 in mechanical engineering technology.
Six Penn State York students who completed their work at an upper division campus of Penn State will return to York, their home campus, to receive a degree during the ceremony. Penn State York has 185 students moving on from the campus to complete their degrees at another Penn State location. Penn State York offers the first two years of more than 160 Penn State majors and those students comprise most of the campus.


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• "Good Night, Gorilla" by Peggy Rathmann: I had never heard of this author and illustrator until we were sent a couple of her books. "Good Night, Gorilla," aimed at preschoolers, is a great introduction to Rathmann's work. With minimal text, she tells the story of a young gorilla in a zoo that gets hold of the zookeeper's keys and promptly puts them to use. My kids love to identify each animal, pore over the details of the drawings and giggle at the moment when the gorilla's mischief is discovered.
Rathmann inserted several sly references to "Good Night, Gorilla" in her equally appealing book "10 Minutes till Bedtime," which is chock-full of intricate, fun illustrations that will absorb both preschoolers and grade schoolers (not to mention the occasional adult).
The library also recommends Rathmann's "Officer Buckle and Gloria," the story of a safety-obsessed policeman and his dog, but I've found that it's a little above my preschooler's comprehension and beyond his attention span. We'll definitely return to it later, though.
If the book is a hit with your kid, there are a couple of sequels, including "Chicka Chicka 1 2 3," which focuses on numbers (duh) and which was an even bigger hit with my son -- he literally read it to pieces.
• "A New House for Mouse" by Petr Horacek: We stumbled across this tale of a mouse on a mission at our local bookstore. I'm still not sure why it was on the discount table. Both my preschooler and my toddler love following the sweet main character's efforts to find a place where she can live in peace with her huge apple -- and without unwanted roommates.
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A famed psychologist claims that motivated behaviors result from an effort to reduce tension caused by bodily needs such as hunger or thirst. This psychologist's philosophy most closely matches___theory.
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January 3, 2007, 03:24 PM
What's the going spread for these things? Other than soft bolts, are they any other known issues with the Polytechs that I should remember? (I'm M14/M1A ignorant...)
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They also have chrome-lined chambers, so adjusting headspace after installing a USGI bolt is NOT simply a matter of running a finish reamer in there. If it doesn't headspace with a hand-selected USGI bolt, you're looking at another barrel. The flash hiders were faux, (no slots), for BATF import purposes. The wood is known as either "Chu" or "Oingo-Boingo", depending on who you ask. I've seen pics of a couple online here that cleaned up really nicely, the rest just get replaced with walnut, birch, or USGI fiberglass from Fred's.
Regarding that forged chunk of ordnance steel in the Norinco/Polytech M14SA receiver, I'd grab one in a heartbeat, and kick myself for not having bought a couple at discount in the early 1990s. :o
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January 3, 2007, 04:32 PM
They pop up at gun shows for around $800.00
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January 3, 2007, 05:49 PM
I saw one at the last Indy 1500 gun show for $900.00. The dealer would not talk price. It was described as new, but had handling marks on it.
January 3, 2007, 08:41 PM
Thanks, y'all.
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January 4, 2007, 10:15 AM
There's one for sale for 675 on arfcom right now, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know the condition, prolly not LNIB.
Another issue is whether it's heel stamped (like a Garand/M14) or stamped on the side. The heel stamped models are more popular.
Personally, I wouldn't pay more than 700 for a LNIB, or 600 for a nice used one, but then, I'm greedy.:D
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January 4, 2007, 10:19 AM
$900 to $1,000 here in Hoosierland. Gun show is next weekend so I'll check again.
Solid weapon as a base gun.
January 5, 2007, 09:14 AM
Everybody seems to offer and sell them "like new in box" now.
I wonder why?
Maybe it is because the rifles are notorious for frame stretching withing 2000 rounds if they have not been properly heat treated?
If you find one now for $700 or less insist on head spacing the rifle, if the seller won't allow it pass on the sale.
The LNIBs at $800 and up are overpriced in my opinion unless the seller offers documentation that the rifle has been properly heat treated.
I would still insist on head spacing the rifle.
The documentation would be a work order or receipt for services rendered listing the work preformed and serial number of the rifle.
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A firm of legal eagles is investigating whether distie giant Tech Data violated state or federal laws by making accounting errors that will wipe millions off its bottom line from recent years. Kahn Swick & Foti (KSF) is also probing CEO Bob Dutkvsky's offloading of $2m in his firm's shares earlier this month The US logistics …
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If the CEO has ditched his shares just before the announcement caused the share price to drop that surely has to be a violation of insider trading laws.
However from the story, I cant quite tell when this "accounting error" was reported compared to when he made the share sale. Can you clarify that El Reg?
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I'm sure the CEO is shocked, shocked! to discover there have been accounting irregularities going on with his business. And that his offloading of shares mere weeks before the public revelation was for entirely coincidental and for unrelated purposes.
Isn't it strange how these accounting mistakes are never for underbooking profit or sales. It's almost as if a CEO moves heaven and earth to investigate if he suspects the numbers are too low for a quarter, but shrugs if they seem a little too high...
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Tiny Trees
Bonsai challenges hobbyists to create living works of art.
Lynne Thompson
In a world where bigger is generally considered better, Wildwood Gardens in Hambden Township is a nursery unique among its northeast Ohio counterparts. The trees, some over a century old, have been dwarfed to tabletop size by hours of patient pruning into idealized shapes inspired by nature. Some belong to 83-year-old owner Anthony Mihalic and his son Frank. Others are the property of students in Frank's Saturday-morning bonsai class or members of the Ohio Great Lakes Bonsai Club, which meets at the nursery.
"I've had one guy who's been here for 25 years studying with me," Frank says. "He's very good — I don't know if there's anything else I can teach him."
As he walks between the rows of shelves, Frank points out a number of trees that illustrate some of the classic bonsai styles: a sentinel-straight spruce in the formal upright style; junipers with curving trunks and branches that illustrate the informal upright style; and a black pine wired into a cascade of green over the side of its container. One of the most dramatic specimens is a Japanese maple with exposed roots growing over a rock half-hidden in the soil, clutching it like the tentacles of a baby octopus.
The nursery is the result of a lifelong passion passed on from father to son. Anthony developed an interest in rare, unusual and dwarf plants as a child growing up in Belmont County — he used small plants to create landscapes around maple-syrup tins shaped like log cabins. As an adult, he worked on bonsai after he punched out from his job on an Eaton Corp. assembly line and sold them during vacation trips to bonsai convention sites.
"The shows paid for our vacations," Frank, now 51, recalls with a smile.
The bonsai enthusiasts frequenting Wildwood Gardens run the gamut from doctors and college professors to housewives and high-school students. Some are from the nearby Berkshire school system, where Frank Mihalic oversees an in-school detention program.
"A lot of the appeal [of bonsai] is the challenge," says Mihalic. "What can you make out of that tree?"
Dan Binder, a bonsai specialist at the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, believes creating a living work of art "takes you away from your surroundings and into a different realm."
Almost any woody tree, shrub or vine can be used to accomplish this feat — Mihalic and Binder mention everything from boxwood to chrysanthemums. "Bonsai is an art form, not a type of plant," Frank stresses.
Those who prefer a head start in reducing foliage and roots can purchase "pre-bonsai," which are priced according to the variety of plant and style/quality of bonsai. Anyone willing to start from scratch, however, can pick up an ordinary plant at the neighborhood nursery or garden center for far less money.
Mihalic suggests beginners stick with a deciduous or evergreen tree that can stay outside year-round. Both he and Binder single out junipers and pines, although Binder adds that maples "are almost ready-made for bonsai."
When shopping for a plant, Mihalic recommends looking for one with a smooth, tapered trunk, plenty of branches and foliage, and a good root structure. The latter can be determined by digging into the dirt to expose them. "With a good bonsai, you really can see how those roots are grabbing and holding firm to the soil," Binder says.
Familiarizing oneself with the basic styles of bonsai also helps in the selection process.
Mihalic includes photographs of what he describes as slanting and broom styles (a straight trunk topped by a broom-like dome of foliage) with the aforementioned formal upright, informal upright, and cascade styles in his self-published book, The Art of Bonsai. (According to both Mihalic and Binder, the refined Japanese style of bonsai is more popular in this country than the pastoral Chinese equivalent; therefore they limit their comments almost exclusively to it.)
Binder urges first-timers to buy several plants of different species. "If one plant does die, then it's not so catastrophic," he says.
When it comes to supplies, a good potting medium is perhaps the most critical to maintaining a healthy bonsai. Unlike most potting soils — heavy mixtures that contain a lot of fine organic material — the bonsai counterpart is a light, porous composition that drains quickly so the roots can breathe. Binder mentions a kitty litter-like product called Turface, while Mihalic describes a Wildwood Gardens mixture of high-fired crushed shale and pine bark. Because the potting mixture doesn't retain water and contains little or no nutrients, daily watering and frequent fertilizing are necessary. Mihalic says just about any prepared fertilizer will do. However, he recommends cutting the strength of mix-it-yourself fertilizers in half:
The shallow bonsai pot figures prominently in artistic presentation. Ideally, it should reflect the plant's style and character. According to Mihalic, strong, rugged trees should be in rectangular pots, delicate, fragile-looking trees in round or oval containers. Binder says the "drip zone," or outer perimeter of foliage, will determine the size of the pot. "It needs to capture the entire plant, but not be so big that it detracts from the plant itself," he says.
Before reducing the root ball, Binder recommends taking the plant out of the nursery container, carefully laying it on its side, and removing as much soil as possible without taking the fine roots with it, either by gently flushing the dirt away with a garden-hose spray attachment or carefully raking it away with a root rake. He suggests starting by removing old, dying or dead roots. "The very tips of the growing roots are going to be white or a lighter color," he notes. The key to pruning the root ball is keeping it in proportion to the existing foliage.
"If you take away, say, a third of the root mass, you have to do the same to the top," Binder says. "If you eliminate roots without reducing the foliage mass, they're not going to be able to supply enough moisture."
Similarly, dead and dying branches are often removed during the first prunings of foliage. Since the bonsai is typically composed of one-third trunk and two-thirds foliage, the bottom-most branches are also removed. (Binder recommends concave cutters, which cut larger branches with a cut that doesn't scar the trunk.) Exposing the trunk and roots, he says, is critical to determining the "front" of the bonsai — the most pleasing angle from which to view it. "When an artist is designing a bonsai, he or she is starting at the trunk and going up from there," he says.
Basic bonsai design dictates a triangular foliage mass composed of branches that become shorter, thinner and closer together toward the top of the plant in an orderly fashion. Mihalic explains that the longest branch, referred to as the No. 1 branch, is located at the very bottom of the foliage mass on the left or right side, the second-longest opposite it on the other side of the tree, and the third-longest at the back of the tree, each higher on the trunk than the last. The pattern continues up the plant, with no branch directly above one another, to its apex.
Binder and Mihalic suggest joining a bonsai club or taking a bonsai class before attempting more advanced techniques. Most are affiliated with either the American Bonsai Society (
) or Bonsai Clubs International (
). The Franklin Park Conservatory offers bonsai classes the first three Wednesdays in May. There also are books and DVDs on the topic available at libraries, bookstores and Web sites such as Mihalic's
"Bonsai takes a little bit of patience," Binder admits. "You have to plan for the future. But after some time, you can really enjoy something that you've created."
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The Gish Prize Trust announced the selection recently. Selection committee chairman Darren Walker said Lee was chosen "for his brilliance and unwavering courage in using film to challenge conventional thinking."
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