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Women are more likely to enroll in college and they are more likely to have better applications, so now there are hundreds of schools where the female-male ratio is 60 to 40. About 80 percent of the majors in public administration, psychology and education are female. And here's the most important piece of data: Until 1985 or so, male college graduates outnumbered female college graduates. But in the mid-80's, women drew even, and ever since they have been pulling away at a phenomenal rate.Women have jumped ahead of men so quickly. It's important to take account of the situation and do something about it before the gap gets worse. Unfortunately, it's risky even to bring up the subject, though it should be remembered that Larry Summers got slammed for speculating about why women were achieving less than men. Is male underachievement a less or more touchy topic?
This year, 133 women will graduate from college for every 100 men. By decade's end, according to Department of Education projections, there will be 142 female graduates for every 100 male graduates. Among African-Americans, there are 200 female grads for every 100 male grads.
The social consequences are bound to be profound. The upside is that by sheer force of numbers, women will be holding more and more leadership jobs. On the negative side, they will have a harder and harder time finding marriageable men with comparable education levels....
For 30 years, attention has focused on feminine equality. During that time honest discussion of innate differences has been stifled (ask Larry Summers). It's time to look at the other half.
October 15, 2005
The educational gender gap.
51 comments:
- Jeff said...
I'm an underachiever. Most of my friends are, both male and female. The smartest people that I know are waiters and bartenders. Literally, the smartest.
Masters degrees in useless things like literature or film will lead you towards a brilliant career seving expensive dinners to a lot of ambitious half-wits.
- David Boyd said...
It's not that important. Men have simply figured out before women that some credentials, like a BA, are overrated.
- Dana said...
You said, "It's important to take account of the situation and do something about it before the gap gets worse."
Why? No one is claiming discrimination against men by admissions offices.
- Brendan said...
It's not that important. Men have simply figured out before women that some credentials, like a BA, are overrated.
That might be true if you go into business for yourself, but if you're trying to break into a white-collar environment, your stiffest competition will all have degrees. Ann isn't where she is today because she "dropped out and found herself." She's credentialed; she paid her dues. I imagine that for every Bill Gates there are thousands who wish they had stuck it out.
- Ann Althouse said...
Dana: I don't support affirmative action for men, but something needs to be done to solve what is a big social problem (that affirmative action will not be able to remedy).
- Ann Althouse said...
Brendan: I actually was an immense drop out from about 1969 to 1978.
- Tristram said...
That might be true if you go into business for yourself, but if you're trying to break into a white-collar environment, your stiffest competition will all have degrees.
Hmm, given the dramatic changes in workplace (and, of course in higher ed) socialization since the err...agressive... elimination of anything even considering to ponder one day almost becoming offensive, perhaps the men have decided it just ain't worth it...
When a man of the left, also one of better than average credentials like Sommers can't even broach the subject, were would a neaderthal conservative Christian (like me) go?
- Brendan said...
Brendan: I actually was an immense drop out from about 1969 to 1978.
You didn't bomb the Physics Bldg, did you? :-)
- Jeff said...
The bottom line, from "Alpha Women, Beta Men":
It's not as if these women ever expected their husbands to support them completely—at least a lot of them didn't. It's just that it never occurred to them that they might be the ones doing all the heavy lifting. And as hip and open-minded as they like to think they are, they were, after all, raised on the same fairy tale as the rest of us—the one where Prince Charming comes to the rescue of Sleeping Beauty.
Emily, a senior sales executive, admits she enjoys the control she has over Mark, a struggling photographer. But sex has become an issue.
"I can't give up the position of empress," she says. "Everything is in my name. When I've gotten really bratty, I've said, 'Well fine, leave,' knowing he can't leave. I've never had such security in a relationship. There's no risk of flight. But it's only giving me a short-term gain. Ultimately, it's emasculating for him.
"Mark," she adds, "was the best sex I ever had." But that was long ago. "We fight instead," she says. "We're embroiled in some weird combat. It's like Lysistrata. I tell him, 'Your business is going to have to get better faster.' Until then, I'm withholding."
When Emily comes home, she doesn't always want to be the boss. But she says her husband no longer has the authority to take over. "I want somebody to take that power role away from me," she explains. "Ultimately, it gets down to pretty basic stuff. It's hard to be the power broker every day and then be the femme fatale. I'm not going to pay the bills—I feel like his mother—and then come home and suck his dick."
- Pogo said...
Being as we're the Cause of All Things Evil, it's been hard to be a white male for quite some time. However, if you mention this notion, be prepared to have the Litany of Male Sins read to you once again. No one will ever feel sorry for men, not in this country, not in this century.
That said, those universities that figure out how to attract young men to its campuses will also attract competitive female students. The marketplace might sort this out to an extent.
How is it that just a few years ago we were reading about how schools shortchange girls?
- XWL said...
I think more and more employers will hire based on personal contacts, personal interview and overall impression rather than number and types of degrees.
Having a degree is no automatic indication of competence in any but the more technical minded fields, and even then many people have to unlearn the habits and assumptions they learned during their schooling.
People who are over-credentialled and under-achieving generally have more than a meaningless degree to blame for their situation.
Universities seem to be designed to produce professors and not much else, and given the finite demand for professors and the tenure system which favors older professionals over those entering the profession you end up with a lot of bewildered graduates wondering what was the point of the past 5-9 years.
So the situation in the future very well may be that you have an excess of women burdened by debts due to the loans they must repay and the lost opportunity costs of taking themselves out of the full-time workforce and you'll have a cadre of men that though they may have had to start in the mail room at age 19 showed the intelligence and drive to be promoted to a position of responsibility by age 26. So which hypothetical person is better off? The guy who had been working for 7 years gaining contacts, experience and income, or the girl who hit the books, garnered academic accolades, debts, and little knowledge of the way real business is done?
And which of these two people would be the better hire?
In otherwords the market will solve this problem, although cutting back on government subsidies for higher education will speed the process, college for everyone has proven to be a costly, unneeded and failing experiment.
- Ann Althouse said...
Pogo: "How is it that just a few years ago we were reading about how schools shortchange girls?" Maybe in trying to solve one problem, they created the other. Brooks talks about that in his column.
- Jeff said...
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- Jeff said...
Blogger is witholding my links, even though they appear correctly in "preview".
Here is the article I quoted from:
Alpha Women, Beta Men
Wives are increasingly outearning their husbands, but their new financial muscle is causing havoc in the home.
Btw, isn't this all something like the desired goal of second-wave feminism? The gradual establishment of a defacto matriarchy?
- Ann Althouse said...
Jeff: I think you did the code wrong, because in the email copy I got of it, the entire quote was turned into a link. You must have botched the closing tag.
- Gerry said...
"It's important to take account of the situation and do something about it before the gap gets worse."
- Gerry said...
"what is a big social problem"
Why is it a big problem? It is what it is. Limited slots, going to those who have best earned them.
Who cares what gender they are? Even if it gives the girls bigger numbers?
- Ann Althouse said...
Gerry: Women and men have to live together. We can't become entirely estranged!
- Becker said...
"...Larry Summers got slammed for speculating about why women were achieving less than men." I would parse the point. He actually said that there are fewer women in "hard science" [my term] because they are genetically predisposed to be less capable. A point, by the way that seems to be supportable with scientific data.
"About 80 percent of the majors in public administration, psychology and education are female." I would argue, who cares. Those majors do not create wealth, they do not create jobs [except for otherwise unemployable pinheads] and they do not raise the standard of living. With respect to "education", it arguably the most marginal of majors. The only tangible contribution made by ed majors in the last 50 years is to dumb down general education.
Bottom line, women may graduate more prolifically than men, but the graduate in majors that marginalize them into "academic" professions and professions that do nothing to advance the overall standard of living in the world.
- OddD said...
No one is claiming discrimination against men by admissions offices.
Who would dare?
The discrimination starts with boys in pre-school. Boyish behavior is discouraged and even medicated. As has been said in this blog, by the time the boy grows into the man, he knows he's not welcome, and he's probably had enough of school by that point.
- Synova said...
I don't know, Ann. I do recall once getting a earful about how a bunch of little boys diving into a Pokemon discussion and Game Boy game (back when both were brand new things) symbolized the oppression of women. Boys, she said, were so danged *good* at this context free interaction and it was just so *unfair* because that was what made them successful.
Something I've realized over the years is that I take tests like a boy. Everytime I'd hear about plans to make testing better for girls the plan was exactly the type of test that I was bad at.
So what will a plan to get more men in college look like?
To a lot of people it's going to look like an attack on women. Sad but too likely true.
- John(classic) said...
Will this mean the end of the great genetic experiment? For decades college men and women have found their mates at college -- eugenics as a side effect.
- Sally said...
Becker -
Being an educator does nothing to raise the standards of living in the world? I'm a teacher and I beg to differ, although I certainly concede to your point that contemporary ed has failed a lot of kids. But I think the pendulum is swinging back to skills.
In regard to Ann's point - I agree, this is a potential crisis! Educated women and uneducated men? I don't think that will go over so well in most marriages. Also to consider (a previous post of Ann's) is the frequency of women to drop out of the workforce for some period of time due to child rearing. If most of the educated ones stay at home to raise kids for some time, who will be there to pick up the slack?
- Troy said...
A point to support Allicent... Compulsory education in the U.S. has very few problems that concerned, involved, and non self-absorbed parents wouldn't solve.
There are idiot teachers -- just like there are idiot lawyers, etc. Most are not.
Allicent stay at home moms/dads... There may be a lag time between the shortage of workers available and the generation that will reap huge rewards from haing a parent at home.
- XWL said...
Regarding Prof. Althouse's comment that 'women and men have to live together' I have to say not exactly.
I had an African studies professor who spent some time with a subsitence agricultural community and they lived in largely homosocial groups.
The men, married and single lived on one side of the camp, the women and children lived on the other.
For most of human history we have likely lived more like that then like we live today (the agricultural revolution and all the revolutions that followed are recent in terms of our existence as homo sapiens).
Men and women living together may actually be counter to our innate biology (most other higher primates live in largely homosocial groups).
I'm not advocating that we return to living separately but the notion that we must live together forgets our history as a species and also suggests that living together is something that has to be practiced and reinforced individually and culturally for it to succeed.
- Nels said...
Not to sound like a raging capitalist, but are men earning less money than women? If not, what is the problem? If men are earning comparable money they must be educated in something of value, though it might be outside the humanities and it might be self-taught. Is this simply a case of women unable to find enough men who share their interests?
- Peter Burnet said...
I think the main reason this is happening is that women know they are now faced with the reasonable likelihood they will have to support themselves and their children, while more and more guys just wanna have fun. Both sexes have largely rejected the idea of the outward-looking life composed of duties to others, but biology leaves women with fewer escape routes. Hitting the books hard over several years doesn't happen just out of love for the subject matter.
- QitAll said...
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- QitAll said...
It is curious that there is such a disparity. I would like for someone to study graduating classes and find out what all the men are doing who didn't go to college and why they made the choices they made.
But, you are fooling yourself if you think degrees do not matter. There was a brief time during the Internet boom when you didn't need a degree if you were a programmer because they were so desperate to find anyone. The second the boom was over, the suits started to come out and the degrees became all critical again.
Also, the degrees can be important even if you go into business for yourself. It is harder to raise money initially if you do not have the credentials. For every Bill Gates (who had a family who was successful to back him up), there are many names of folks you have never heard of and unfortunately, probably will not hear of as they don't get the opportunities they would have with a little investment of time.
- Pogo said...
In 1995 came the book "Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls," by Myra and David Sadker.
A google of the title is revealing as to its downstream effect, which I would argue was massive. Their ideas changed the curriculum in grade schools even in my little town, within just a few years of its publication. Its premise fit in well with the multicultural bandwagon.
- Gerry said...
"Women and men have to live together. We can't become entirely estranged!"
I do not see how an accomplishment gap causes complete estrangement. Not only do I not see a causal relationship, I do not see any sort of strong relationship there.
- Ann Althouse said...
Gerry: It's a dysfunctional situation, portending immense social problems. Unmatched males at the bottom of the economic hierarchy and unmatched females at the top -- with the two groups enlarging over time. You don't worry about that?
- Pogo said...
A quick google of "gender equity in schools" reveals 3.3M hits. Reading just a few of these readily demonstrates that the term actually means "promoting women/girls in the classroom.
The underlying premise, if true, should have of course revealed that women did worse than men in school. Now we see the tables turned (if that prior conclusion was ever in fact true), but I doubt there will be much outcry among women or men to do something about it.
Men are and have always been disposable. Women of recent years have never quite recognized this.
- Steve said...
It doesn't say (at least in this post) what the breakdown of chosen courses of study were. That could really make a difference in overall cultural outcomes.
- ziemer said...
when i was a young attorney, i was astonished at how many young black men lived off of women, whether they be mother or girlfriends, or combination thereof.
today, i am astonished at how often i see it in lily-white suburbs.
this can't not be a problem.
- Ann Althouse said...
Pogo: There was also "Reviving Ophelia" a couple years before that. It was a huge topic back then. I can remember law school debates of that time, for example, criticizing the Socratic Method as discriminating against women. Ironically, there was also a big controversy about how NOT using the Socratic Method discriminates against women! Because, you know, it hurts women to call on them, but it also hurts women to have to volunteer.
- ziemer said...
i remember when all the books were out about how schools shortchange girls.
meanwhile, the high school calculus classes, and the honor rolls at graduations, were almost exclusively girls.
the disconnect from reality by the establishment was (and i suppose, still is) quite vast.
- Slocum said...
Why? No one is claiming discrimination against men by admissions offices.
Well, I think most of the discrimination takes place in K-12. But one way to level the playing field considerably would be to reverse recent trends and place more emphasis on college entrance exam scores (where males and females have very equal scores) and de-emphasize high-school GPA (where K-12 tilting toward females shows up in spades).
- Pogo said...
Ann, from this white male's perspective, it seems that no matter what I do, I am wrong precisely because I am a white male. If I open a door for her or refrain, if I am for merit-based advancement or for preferences, if I am for "women's way of knowing" or dismissive of the concept, I know that my view can be cast as mysoginistic or racist (all these have in fact happened to me).
Heck, I was once asked by a female colleague who was attending an important meeting, "How do I look?", and I was overcome with fear. I chose to ignore the question and said, "You'll do fine." Crisis averted.
As a result, outside of this forum, I never discuss these things with men or women. The only time I tell the truth about what I think anymore is in the ballot box and at the bookstore.
- JB said...
Ann, you see a growing gap between Unmatched males at the bottom of the economic hierarchy and unmatched females at the top and that this "problem" is both enlarging and dangerous.
I think the "problem" is not as great as perceived. Let's step back into the memory hole and pull out the post about female autonomy. Now, female autonomy doesn't scare me one bit, but it should probably scare females...why? Well, let's look at today's society and speculate where we're headed. A bunch of single moms have kids which the majority of which happen to be daughters (men/boys flake less on their sons), these daughters then grow into their teens and 20s and are "ahem" less monogomous than say the daughters of men who stuck around. They tend to float from lower rung men to lower rung men, these lower rung men, all the while could care less, heck there 27 dating an 18 year old, and all the while the mother is fretting about how their daughter is ruining her life.
All the while, the "elite" rung women, graduate from the gender studies program where they learned to claim for themselves a pronoun, of which they do not use, and keep credentialing themselves, as they move further up in the educational chain, they move from a gender studies class that had 5 men to 25 women, to a class of 2 men to 28 women. And then they wonder, where are all the decent men?
While all the decent men, probably went into an enginneering (oh my like something useful?!) or business program, and got out of education in 4-5 years all because I mean seriously school is mostly a waste of time.
And yet the men on the bottom rung are happy, it only takes a few "not-generally monogomous" females to satisfy a large population of men. All the while the "elite" women proclaim the glory that is the "liberation of women" from the "shackles of patriarchy" and thus encourages young women, to "claim sex as their own" and then they wonder why the educated men dating pool doesn't exist, because seriously, why should a man waste 5 years of his life going to school when he can find what he's really after without it, but of course, it was "the patriarchy" that enforced this evil mantra that women who were "less chaste" were less desirable, and yet of course this string of events is the fault of men.
- Gerry said...
"It's a dysfunctional situation, portending immense social problems. Unmatched males at the bottom of the economic hierarchy and unmatched females at the top -- with the two groups enlarging over time. You don't worry about that?"
Not in the slightest. I've never believed that people have to marry within their own social strata. We would see more of this, should what you suggest continue. I don't know why I should fear that as potentially bringing severe consequences.
I also think back to not that long ago, when women were not allowed to be competitive economically. Men and women still found a way to get together. Babies were still born. Society still progressed.
In a strange way, I think that this whole phenomena may be an equalling one, rather than an unbalancing one. After all, a certain percentage of women will end up choosing to sacrifice their careers to mothering. This may be God's (or nature's, if you are so inclined) way of compensating for that.
It's not that I think the risk of the dire social effects you see looming is lower than you think, it is that I do not even see the risk at all. What would be the mechanism of these social impacts? What would the problem be? You are speaking as if it is obvious and does not even need to be spelled out.
- Gerry said...
"We would see more of this"
Mea culpa, that should have said "we would see less of this", with the "this" being marrying only within a certain social or economic class.
Hell, having more coupling occur outside of economic strata would have the nice effect of helping to temper the ability of leftists to stoke class resentments to gain power.
- Slocum said...
"It's a dysfunctional situation, portending immense social problems. Unmatched males at the bottom of the economic hierarchy and unmatched females at the top -- with the two groups enlarging over time. You don't worry about that?"
OMG, the problem of interest is not the whole social matchmaking system will be thrown out of whack, the problem is (and why is this so difficult to grasp?) that a significant percentage of males are being poorly served by our educational system and, as a result, are not developing to their full potential. And this is especially true of young black males for whom this is all a disaster.
And, this large and growing gap between female and male achievement is a recent phenomenon. It simply has to be put down to changes in society and our educational system and not, as many seem wont to do, to inherent inadequecies in males. Yes, males and our education system may be poorly matched. Our educational system may be discouraging and turning off males in large numbers, but that is because the system has been changed, intentionally and by design, to better accomodate the learning styles and preferences of female students. This is not some sort of secret, it was the result of decades of research and advocacy.
- Kathy Herrmann said...
By and large, it semes the unstated answer to many of the k-12 education problems is either...
1) sex-segregated schools (at least to some point).
2) educational systems that incorporate learning styles of both girls and boys, perhaps favoring one and then other at times.
- Ann Althouse said...
Kathy: There could be two styles of classrooms, but with individuals able to select the one they want. One would be oriented to the needs perceived as male, the other the current system (i.e., oriented to what is commonly perceived as female), and then individual students could choose the one that personally suits them. It's important to avoid sex discrimination with respect to individuals (and constitutionally required).
- XWL said...
In theory offering two types of methodologies in K-12 would be advisable but in practice unworkable.
Whether society likes it or not, children enforce and act out gender roles assiduously (personal example, I had long hair and a beard at one time, and my friend's 4 year old son insisted that I was a girl, due to my flowing wavy locks, completely ignoring my facial hair, for him long hair=girl).
I can't imagine the school yard being friendly to boys that choose the femme/dominate classes or girls who choose the masculine/dominate classes. You can insist administratively that the classes are gender neutral but the perception of those classes by the students themselves will likely become very gendered and therefore subject the 'wrongly' gendered students to ostracization.
More workable (but possibly too expensive) would be rotating teachers and methodologies into the class and observing which students respond to which instruction method and let these courses run concurrently so that the segregation wouldn't be as noticeable and would give the students the opportunity to adopt the methodology that works for them on a subject by subject basis.
(one teacher teaching all subjects in their preferred manner has always seemed like a bad idea regardless of grade level, the tots don't need to run around the campus like high school students, but the teachers could)
- Bruce Hayden said...
As long as many women are being admitted to law schools and medical schools, we are going to face the situation where there are a lot of women who can't find men making as much as they do.
That is because there are a whole lot of other women who want to marry "up" to the men graduating with these women. And, a lot of these guys are probably willing to take the better looking, less educated, women instead of their classmates.
So, as long as we expect that this will continue, both sexes are going to have to come to grips with this. The women are going to have to give up the idea that they can only marry "up", and the guys give up on the idea that their sole worth is as the bread winner.
I think that it will come - it is just going to take time. Remember, my mother, and the other women of her generation, getting married just after WWII, were "happy" to give up furthering their education for raising families. My (Baby Boom) generation came along and threw this out. But this really only started 35-40 years ago. That is an eye blink in human history.
(I should note that there were plenty of career women in the previous generation, those fighting in WWI, but, by and large, they were the ones who didn't have families).
- Bruce Hayden said...
I do think though that the best solution for K-12 is the option of single sex classes (and, preferably schools). What I envision is that a majority will still prefer that their kids attend co-ed classes. But there are boys who don't do well in co-ed classes, and, to some lesser extent, given the recent feminine bias of those classes, some girls too. And they should be given the chance to attend single sex schools.
I should also note that the kids who would attend such at, say, K-5, might be very different from those who attend such in high school.
- Ann Ãø said...
Ann Althouse said...
Gerry: It's a dysfunctional situation, portending immense social problems. Unmatched males at the bottom of the economic hierarchy and unmatched females at the top -- with the two groups enlarging over time. You don't worry about that?
This situation has been lived in other times and places.
exemple-a: after both wars europe had strong imbalance
Solution 1: Become part of the groupies or harem of older wiser Man (Men)
Solution 2: marry below and play pretend (a much used solution)
Solution 3: become missionary and then in other place in the world use a mix a solution 2 and 1.
Other exemple: Caribeen (Sp?) Solution 1 and 2 apply
Final exemple: USA today Be single and get baby from plastic bottles then in next generation problem is solved.
Only impediment is that a strong woman sees her heirs loosing their life with loosers or worst.
Society looses nothing but its culture because replacement population will be latinos and asians.
Is that good or part of gods'plan? Þ Þ
Anne who is sad!
- Rida said...
I think that this is an awesome subject. I'm very surprised to find this in a blog. I am conducting research in this area as a Phd requirement.
- ann said...
Until we begin looking at differential treatment from an early age and show just how our individual environments create different mental/emotional/social conditioning; how average stress is made up of layers of mental frictions that take up real mental energy, and how differential treatment creates real advantages for girls today, we will continue to be at a loss to explain the growing Male Crisis. The problem is more complex than school curriculum or boy chemistry.
The first problem involves two entirely different treatments of Males and Females beginning as early as one year of age and increases in differential treatment through adulthood. This is creating the growing Male Crisis in the information age. The belief Males should be strong allows more aggressive treatment of Males beginning as early as one year. This is coupled with much "less" kind, stable, verbal interaction and less mental/emotional/social support, knowledge, and skills for fear of coddling. This increases over time and continued by society from peers and teachers to others in society. This creates more social/emotional distance from parents and other authority figures who have knowledge; higher average stress that hurts learning and motivation to learn; more activity due to need for stress relief; more defensiveness and wariness of others further hindering emotional and social growth; and higher muscle tension (creating more pressure on pencil and tighter grip) that hurts writing and motivation to write. It creates much lag in development creating a learned sense of helplessness in school. This differential treatment continues on through adulthood, almost fixing many Males onto roads of failure and more escape into more short-term areas of enjoyment. Also the giving of love based on achievement that many Males thus falling behind academics then turns their attention toward video games and sports, risk taking to receive small measures of love/honor not received in the classroom.
Since girls by differential treatment are given more positive, continual, and close mental/emotional/social/ support verbal interaction and care from an early age onward this creates quite the opposite outcome for girls compared with boys. The lower the socioeconomic bracket and time in that bracket the more amplified the differential treatment from a young age and increased and more differentiated over time.


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LAKEWOOD — For the nine seniors on the Niwot baseball team, graduation was an informal affair on Saturday.
They stood in the rightfield grass at All-Star Park, sweaty and dirty. Many of them had tears in their eyes and anger on their faces as, just moments after a 10-2 loss to Green Mountain in the Class 4A state title game, they received a hug from a principal Dennis Daly and their diplomas from coach Craig McBride.
No, it wasn't a perfect ceremony for the Cougars, who missed out on the formal event earlier in the day, but it was fitting.
After several years of struggles, the Niwot baseball team returned to form this season. The Cougars didn't win the state championship, but they did what so many Cougars have done before them by skipping graduation in order to play for one.
"Our whole main goal was to turn the program, get it back on the upswing, get it back on top," first baseman Alex Kinnison said. "I believe we did that."
Followers of prep baseball grew accustomed to seeing Niwot on the final weekend of the season during the 28-year coaching tenure of Bob Bote. From 1979-2006, Bote's Cougars went 459-123 and won five state championships, including three in a row from 1998-2000. They also won back-to-back titles in 2004 and 2005.
After Bote resigned, assistant coach Jason Lathrop took over and the success continued. The Cougars went 49-22 in Lathrop's three seasons, with two appearances in the state tournament. They came within one win of the state championship game in 2007.
As most high school sports programs tend to do, however, Niwot went through a down cycle.
During the five-year period of 2009-2013, the Cougars won just one postseason game. In 2011 — McBride's second season as head coach — Niwot won just seven games and missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1970s. In 2012, the Cougars won just five games and missed the postseason again.
"It was really tough," said McBride, who was an assistant at Niwot from 2000-09 before taking the head coaching position. "You just had to keep the ultimate goal in mind and not panic."
In 2011, McBride tried what he calls an "experiment." He had a freshman class that year that he knew was talented, so he threw them into the fire. Five of them were regular starters that year. The next year, seven sophomores filled the starting lineup. No wonder they went 12-25 in those two seasons.
"We knew they were going to take some lumps, but we had some really good outings — even in those years we had some good outings," he said. "They have to play the game, so you just try to encourage them and try to help them do the best that they can."
As juniors, they won their last four games of the regular season to qualify for districts and finished 10-10, setting the stage for this season.
"It took just trusting everybody," catcher Tanner Kirkpatrick said of the group's three years of struggles. "We did so many team builders. Everything we did in coach McBride's basement or Wednesdays with coach (Adam) Strah just brought us together. We took it on the field and it made us want to work that much harder."
It didn't hurt that every day they came to practice, whether at the baseball field or in the practice warehouse they use, they saw banners celebrating the success of the past.
"You see it, you hear it and it just makes you dream for it," Kirkpatrick said.
This spring, they lived it. They went 21-3 before dropping both games this weekend, against Longmont and Green Mountain. At 21-5, they posted the program's best record since the 2005 title team went 25-1.
"It's been a long time coming," McBride said. "We've always known that the talent was there with this group and it just took a little bit for them to come together, but they had a phenomenal season."
All nine seniors were in the starting lineup Saturday, which leads to the question: Will Niwot fall on hard times next year with this group gone? The Cougars don't think so. They've got talent waiting in the wings, they believe, led by talented pitchers Nick Elrod and Ford Ladd.
The returning players also got an opportunity to taste success.
"We got to put up new banners in our warehouse, put up new banners around the school, hang a trophy," Kinnison said. "We did it and it's a great feeling.
"We set the standard and I'm confident that the guys below us are going to keep carrying it."
Saturday may not have been perfect, but history suggests that Niwot can look forward to more informal graduation ceremonies on the outfield grass in years to come.
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Onward and upward with SpringerLink
Posted by: G. Karen Merguerian
It's 6am on a cold November morning, and I know I'm not the only one awake. As I am writing this, a few Northeastern researchers are online with me, and are currently reading:
*A book chapter about the semantic web
*An article about arterial fibrillation
*An article about human trafficking
How do I know this? Because Springer, the venerable German publisher of chiefly scientific research, has recently updated its SpringerLink web site.
The content on the new site is the same solid high-quality research they've always had, searchable and easily linkable, with full text PDFs available DRM-free, even for ebook chapters, to NU affiliates.
But the new site has this "Recent Activity" feature. It's anonymous, but anyone, including you, can see a little window into what's being read on SpringerLink at Northeastern right now. More importantly, the new SpringerLink site has a cleaned-up layout and style that displays better in a variety of browsers. The search results page now shows results at the individual book chapter level, with a "look inside" feature for content not licensed by our library that you may want to purchase. The "advanced search" has been revamped and is easier to use.
We do have a warning about the new site: If you've been a "power user" of Springer Link in the past, you may have set up a "My Account" feature to save your searches, tag your results, and keep a history of any personal orders. Please be aware that your "My Account" on the old SpringerLink will NOT be migrated to the new site. (Unfortunately Springer claims that privacy rules prohibit them from notifying account-holders individually.) You'll have to set up a new account on the new site and start all over. The new "My Account" also allows you to log in from anywhere, not just through the NU Libraries.
Currently both the old and the new Springer Link sites are available, so "My Account" users should log in over the Thanksgiving break and save what's in your old account. Beginning sometime Monday morning, 11/26, you'll be redirected to the new site and the old site and old account information will no longer be available.
So give the new Springer Link a test drive. Have fun seeing the "Recent Activity" of researchers at NU. I just checked, and it's now a book about genetically modified plants and an article about Harry Potter from an education journal. I'm sure when you log in it will be something completely different!
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Just Us Girls: Technique Challenge - Sponge a Layer
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Wonderful masking, Lynn! Love the blue, white and black combo and that fabulous star! :)ReplyDelete
Love the masking and sponge layer! You nailed this technique. A lovely baby boy card!ReplyDelete
Your sponged layer is fantastic Lynn - the perfect amount of colour for this sweet card :)ReplyDelete
Super sweet, Lynn! I love that soft blue with the black accents.ReplyDelete
So glad you liked this technique, Lynn! I thought it was cool when I first saw Gina doing it on her video. Your card is so pretty! Love the color of your sponging and the star with the tail behind is the perfect embellishment! So pretty!ReplyDelete
very cool!! you made sponging look modern and fresh!! love it!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing another great idea, Lynn! What a sweet card!ReplyDelete
What a great challenge... I've done this technique before, but should try my hand at it again...ReplyDelete
Gorgeous creation with the technique! I like the trail from your star!ReplyDelete
Love the varying shades of blue too! This sweet card would be easy to recreate in any colour! Just put my stars set into a case and thought of you :) My lovely "Lynn" card is on my display shelf still making me smile :)ReplyDelete
So stinkin CUTE! I love the swirly trails over your pretty blue!ReplyDelete
Lynn this is really pretty! I love the blue star!ReplyDelete
Oh now this looks cool. Your CAS fabulous card makes me even think I can try this technique!ReplyDelete
Wow, if I hadn't read it, I never would've guessed that strip was sponged. It looks fantastic and I love the trails for your star!ReplyDelete
That blue is so serene, and your sponging is perfect! It looks like a heavenly scene.ReplyDelete
A super sweet baby card, Lynn, and your masking is so perfect!ReplyDelete
LOVE this card. Simply beautiful.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, just look at that stunning blue! Love how that technique turned out for you.ReplyDelete
Just fantastic Lynn, I love the sentiment too :0)ReplyDelete
Is sponging the new misting though???
Surely there's room for them both :0)
Jenny x
This IS a really beautiful technique, Lynn, and as ALWAYS, you showcased it SO expertly, I'm all ready to get busy AGAIN! Kind of addiciting, actually! FANTASTIC inspo, dear crafty babe! Yipeeee!ReplyDelete


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Bighorn sheep and mule deer can be viewed along the Snake River road between Huntington and Richland. Keep your eyes open as Bald Eagles are also plentiful in the area. Bighorn sheep in the Burnt River are down low in the canyon along the riparian areas and can be viewed from the road.
Bighorn sheep can be viewed along the South Fork of the John Day. Elk, deer, antelope, and sheep are having their young. It is important to remember to leave any wildlife where you found them. It usually won't be long before mom returns to check on them. Also view from a distance to prevent disturbing them. 6/3/13.
Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler Counties
Summer is here, most of the young are leaving the nest. Fledglings can be seen in most yards. The long billed curlews have headed back to the wet areas with fledglings. Crows are starting to fledge as well.
Ferruginous hawks can be seen the northern portion of the District. Short-eared owl can be seen along the grasslands of the north end of the District. Swainson's hawks can be seen in the north end of the district on their nests. They are the last of our hawks to arrive and nest. Swainson's hawk also has the longest migration as they winter in Argentina. Also in the grasslands one can spot horned larks, savanna sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, and meadowlarks. In areas that have good bunch grass in the north end of the District persistent birds can spot grasshopper sparrows, although they are easier to identify by sound. Our year-round resident raptors, red-tailed hawks, Northern harriers, and American kestrels are all easily found. Sharp-shinned hawks can be seen along the riparian areas of the north half of the District. In the areas that have sagebrush one can spot loggerheaded shrieks.
In the yards of the district, one can find the common songbirds around the feeder. Dark-eyed juncos, song sparrows, house sparrows, white-crowned sparrows are all easily found. American gold finches and Rufus sided towhees can also be see in the Heppner area. Also be cautious in the gravel driveways and parking lots as killdeer are nesting and their nests are very hard to spot.
Waterfowl can be seen out with their young in the waterways of the area. It is easy to spot mallards, American widgeon, northern shovelers, coot, blue wing, green wing, and cinnamon teals, buffleheads, and common mergansers. One can also spot common and Pied-billed grebes along the Columbia. Great blue herons are found along all of our streams that support fish. In the wetlands of the area one can spot American Avocets, black-necked stilts, yellow-headed blackbirds and red-wing blackbirds.
In the forests of the District one can see mountain and western bluebirds in most of the meadows. Deer and elk can be seen with their young, with the best chance to spot them at dawn and dusk. Snowshoe hares can be seen in the denser lodge-pole areas. They are easily identified by their white feet.
Breeding, nesting, and fledging are on all at once and bird viewing opportunities exist in many areas of the county. Breeding birds of many descriptions will be found in riparian, woodland, and shrub-steppe areas with many sightings of several species of warblers, sparrows, and wrens. Additionally, some of the more colorful species are making appearances such as Bullock's orioles in riparian zones, western tanagers in forested broadleaf areas, and Lazuli buntings in rose and shrub areas.
Loggerhead shrikes will be a treat for birders in desert areas with abundant sage habitats. Long billed curlews will also be seen in the more grassy areas of the desert habitats as well. Burrowing owls will also be seen standing beside burrows or sitting on fence posts in the more arid areas during this period.
Although the temperatures are up and the hills are dryer, bears, deer, and elk can be seen in the early morning and late evening throughout the forested regions, especially to the north of I-84 where wetter conditions are more common.
The river corridor areas will offer some viewing with white pelicans and waterfowl trading back and forth along the river corridors. Warm season brings the opportunity to see species of waterfowl such as cinnamon teal and gadwalls which are absent in the cooler period of the year. The Columbia River is a good place to see a number of gull species as well as both Caspian and Forster's terns.
Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area
Note: Wildlife viewers and anglers need a parking permit to park on the wildlife area. The $7 daily or $22 annual permit can be purchased online or at an ODFW office that sells licenses or at a license sales agent. Learn more about ODFW's Wildlife Area Parking Permit Program.
The Tule Lake Public Access Area and Auto Route and the Glass Hill Unit are open. Visitors are advised to carefully read posted signs and consult game bird regulations before entering the wildlife area. Dogs are not permitted within the Wildlife Area, on or off leash except during authorized hunting seasons. There are numerous quality viewing opportunities from county roads that pass through the area. Binoculars or a spotting scope will help as many animals are best viewed from a distance. Do not approach nesting birds or birds with young as this may make the young more vulnerable to predation.
Canada goose broods have hatched and most of the young are nearly as large as the adults. Duck broods seem to be late this year but more are being seen every day. Every expected species of duck is present including Northern Pintail, Wood Duck, Mallard, American Wigeon, Cinnamon Teal, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall, Ring-necked Duck, Redhead, Bufflehead, Lesser Scaup, Ruddy Duck and Northern Shoveler. A few American White Pelicans are present on the wildlife area.
Great Blue Herons and Great Egrets can be seen in the wetlands and in flight around the area.
Passerines on the area include Song Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Tree, Violet-Green, Cliff, Barn and Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Yellow Warbler and Common Yellowthroat in addition to both Eastern and Western Kingbirds.
Red-tailed Hawks are feeding young as are most Swainson's Hawks. Northern Harriers are also feeding young.
Local nesting Sandhill Crane pairs have hatched and some may be seen feeding in meadows. Small groups of non-breeding cranes can be seen in fields and meadows all around the area. Please report any sandhill cranes wearing leg bands to the Ladd Marsh staff (541-963-4954). If possible, note the color and order of bands on each of the bird's legs (e.g., pink above white on left leg; silver above black on right leg). The specific combination and order can identify individual birds.
White-tailed deer have been visible in meadows, especially in the early morning, and many have fawns. A few elk have been using the refuge below Foothill Road.
For more information on access rules for Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, please consult the Oregon Game Bird Regulations or call the wildlife area (541) 963-4954. 6/3/13.
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There's no better way to earn faith and confidence in a product than to put it to the test.
That being said, I really don't have a burning desire to test out my driver's side air bag, the "emergency call only" feature on my cell phone, or the flare gun that I keep in my boat. It's nice to know that those options are there, but if I'm using one of them, well, you get the picture.
So last week, I hook up the Skeeter and head south on I-35 fully intending to spend the morning sight fishing on a lake in Oklahoma about 60 miles from my place. Thirty-two miles down the road I blow a tire on my single-axle trailer.
No big deal, right? Well, considering that I left my jack in a buddy's truck after helping him fix a flat last month, I was in a predicament. As I sat on the side of the I-35 pondering my next move, it occurred to me that in January I spent 38 bucks for a year-long membership to BoatUS Angler that included the Trailer Assist package. The 38-bucks also includes the chance to win bonus money at tournaments as a member of their Weigh-to-Win program.
I called the 24-hour dispatch number on the back of my membership card and Adam from BoatUS sent a tow truck to the scene within 30 minutes. After replacing the shredded tire with the spare, I was back on the road and headed to the lake without a dime out of my pocket.
As I pulled up to the ramp, Adam from BoatUS called back just to make sure everything went smoothly. At 26 years old, I'm slowly starting to realize that I'm not bullet proof, and things do occasionally go wrong. It was a good feeling knowing that even though I was traveling by myself, the people at BoatUS Angler had my back.
After looking around and catching a few small ones, I finally spotted what I had been looking for - a bug-eyed, pot-bellied, sow on a spawning bed. After working on her for over an hour, I boated my biggest bass of the year - an 11-pound toad.
As it turned out, it took more time to get that bedding bass to bite than it took for me to call BoatUS Angler and get back on the road earlier that morning when I shredded the trailer tire. That either means that I'm horrible at sight fishing or that BoatUS came through with shining colors when I put their product to the test.
I'm going to say it's probably a little bit of both.
A basic membership to BoatUS Angler is $24, and the Unlimited On-the-Road Towing (Trailer Assist) is just another $14. And again, for an affordable $38, you'll also be eligible to register for the Weigh-to-Win contingency program that is a must-do for anybody that fishes tournaments. Go to www.BoatUSFishing.com to check it out or just call (918) 742-6424 and ask to speak with Kendell.
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Roy Higgins rates Victoria's leading jockeys [04:15]
Hall of Fame jockey Roy Higgins is one of the all time greats of the saddle. On the eve of the race named in his honour, the Listed Roy Higgins Quality at Flemington, RVTV sat down with 'the professor' to share his thoughts on modern-day greats including Craig Williams, Luke Nolen and Glen Boss.
Melbourne Festival of Racing Round-Up - January 29 [02:20]
Catch up with the latest racing news, including feature race nominations at Caulfield and all the highlights from the National Jockeys Trust Twenty 20 cricket match between Victoria's leading jockeys and high-profile racing media.
Pt. 1 - El Latigo - Highlights of a Champion [07:35]
These highlight reels chronicle the the racing prowess of Jose Luis "Chegui" Landrau. Chegui, nicknamed "El Latigo," is considered one of the greatest jockeys of all time. Chegui earned his nickname because of the unique way he used the latigo de jinete (the jockey's whip). Te quiero Chegui!!
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Two of Victoria's shining lights in the jockey ranks, apprentice Katelyn Mallyon and G1-winner Michelle Payne, plot their return from injury


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'Glee' Stars Channel Michael Jackson on TV Guide Covers
When 'Glee' tackles Michael Jackson covers in their upcoming tribute episode, things are going to get 'Bad' — if you catch our drift. The episode is said to be packed with as many as 10 MJ renditions, and a whole bunch of drama, which is why they're pimping out the show with two new TV Guide covers.
Rachel, Santana, Kurt and Blaine look pretty slick decked out in genuine MJ-style gear on their double cover spread, and if that's not enough to get you to tune in when the show airs later this month, what we're about to spill will be.
In the Michael Jackson tribute episode, newcomer Grant Gustin — who plays the sneaky boyfriend stealer Sebastian — will try to dig his claws into Blaine once again … and piss off all of McKinley High in the meantime. "For this episode, it's everybody versus Sebastian," Kevin McHale, who plays Artie, explains to TV Line. "He's our first male villain. Adds Gustin, "I do a majorly douche-y thing to one of the characters. So first off the fans are against me, and now the whole cast is against me." Well, now you know not to piss off the gleeks!
In other news, don't expect Sue or Emma to show their faces in this ep, but you can anticipate Sam and Mercedes to get together … on a duet, anyway. The two former lovebirds are said to be performing a MJ and Nat King Cole mash-up, 'Human Nature/ Nature Boy.'
Oh, and Mike gets to let out some pent-up frustration! "Everyone gets to contribute in their own way," says Harry Shum, Jr. said of the MJ ep — and his duet with Artie on the MJ/Janet J. collab, 'Scream.' "It's going to be a fun duet. And that particular song has so much anger and angst about all these things that have built up, and Mike Chang has a lot of pent-up anger he couldn't express, so you're going to see a lot of explosive dance moments."
We can hardly contain ourselves! The Michael Jackson tribute episode is said to be airing at the end of this month.


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Meaning "to bring (a person) away from an evil course of life" is recorded from early 15c.; of governments, institutions, etc., from early 15c. Related: Reformed; reforming. Reformed churches (1580s) usually are Calvinist as opposed to Lutheran. Reformed Judaism (1843) is a movement initiated in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Reform school is attested from 1859.
"any proceeding which brings back a better order of things," 1660s, from reform (v.) and in some uses from French réforme. As a branch of Judaism from 1843.


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Note to readers: This video originally posted on Jan. 24, 2013. We are refeaturing it as part of Morningstar.com's Tax-Relief Week 2013.
Christine Benz: Hi. I am Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. The recently enacted tax package has implications for spouses inheriting assets from one another. Joining me to discuss this topic is estate-planning expert, Deborah Jacobs.
Deborah, thank you so much for being here.
Deborah Jacobs: Thank you for having me.
Benz: Spouses inheriting assets from one another have long been able to take advantage of the marital deduction. Let's talk about what that is, Deborah, and also talk about whether this new tax package that passed through Congress will maintain that marital deduction?
Jacobs: The unlimited marital deduction allows spouses to pass an unlimited amount to each other tax-free, provided that the spouse inheriting is a U.S. citizen. And what happens then is that there is no tax on assets going to that spouse, whether they pass outright or in a special kind of trust, but there is tax on those assets when the second of them dies.
The new tax law did nothing that changes that, it just makes things a little bit better by extending a provision that became part of the tax law for the first time two years ago, and that was set to expire along with everything else at the end of 2012. This provision is called portability; that's not a term that appears in the tax code.
Here is what it means. Portability means that the surviving spouse can add to their own $5 million a tax-free amount whatever portion of the spouse who just died, whatever portion of their tax-free amount was not used during lifetime gifts. So, what this means is that couples together can transfer during life or when they die a total of $10 million-plus. And the reason I keep saying "plus" is the tax law says $5 million, but it's adjustable for inflation. So, in 2012 it was adjusted to $5.12 million apiece for a total of $10.24 million together. We are expecting another inflation adjustment in 2013 though the Internal Revenue Service has not yet announced it.
Benz: This is obviously good news for very affluent couples, maybe not such a big deal for people who aren't so affluent, but you note that even for people who want to take advantage of this portability provision, you still need to take some steps to make it work for you. Let's talk about how that would work if, in fact, you want to take advantage of this portability.
Jacobs: Yes, portability is not automatic. In order to get portability, the surviving spouse must file an estate tax return even if no tax is due. And what this means is that a lot of people who don't think they have to worry about estate taxes are going to have to be aware that they must file this return anyway. I am hoping that the IRS is going to develop a short form for this so that people could even fill it out themselves the way some people do their own income tax returns and perhaps create consumer-oriented software for this as well down the line.
But the important thing to keep in mind right now, and I'm kind of on a public-service campaign about this--I have been for the last two years because I expected this provision to be extended--was you have to know there is this thing called portability and that's not likely to cross your radar screen on an annual basis the way income taxes and other sorts of taxes do. It's a sort of for most people a once-in-a-lifetime kind of a thing or maybe twice-in-a-lifetime, but it's not the sort of thing we think about all the time. You need to know there is such a thing as portability and you need to be aware that you must file an estate tax return in order to carry over this unused amount.
I would encourage everyone to file the estate tax return, electing--that's the word--electing portability even if they don't think they are ever going to have a use for it because what if you win the lottery or what if you sell your business and have a sudden windfall or what if you become rich through investments, you just never know. So, why not be optimistic about it?
Benz: Deborah, one thing that a lot of couples had drafted in a pre-portability era was that they drafted these bypass trusts or B trusts or family trust they're sometimes called, and the idea is to take advantage of both partners' exclusion amounts. Let's talk about what these trusts are? And if you are someone who has such a trust, which has been very much sort of common estate planning prior to portability, do you still need it? Should you dismantle it? Let's talk about some guidance for people in this particular situation.
Jacobs: So, just to sort of put this all in context, there have always been two ways for couples to each use their full federal estate tax exclusion amount. Portability adds a third very simple way. The other two ways that have existed for long time; one is to leave assets outright other than to a spouse, for example to children. The other more popular strategy is to do what was called AB planning. It's to use what's called the bypass trust or a credit shelter trust. And the way this works is that you put into the trust an amount up to the exemption amount. So, you can put in anything up to $5.12 million right now into this trust, and it can even pay income to the surviving spouse during life if you want, but the point is that ultimately, the assets in the trust are going not to the spouse. And so, you're using your estate tax exemption amount, and when your spouse dies, there is no tax on those assets. You have essentially applied your exemption amount to the trust. This is sometimes called the family trust because this trust typically is set up to take care of the whole family or part of the family.
And then anything not going into the bypass trust would go to the spouse either outright or into another special kind of trust for the spouse, which typically pays income during the spouse's life and then goes to other beneficiaries. At that point in time, when the second spouse dies, the assets in that other trust, typically called the A trust or the marital share, are subject to tax. So, the bypass trust is appropriately named because it bypasses the estate tax.
Now, portability is much simpler than setting up a bypass trust. So, there is widespread debate right now, and there has been actually for the last two years about whether people actually needed a bypass trust. For the last two years, lawyers have argued among other things, you still need a bypass trust because you never know what Congress is going to do. Well, now we know what Congress did, so that argument gets taken off the table.
Why you might still want a bypass trust is for all the reasons that people set up trusts anyway, which is to protect assets from creditors, and I don't mean that you're necessarily going to default on financial obligations, but when we say creditors, we also don't want a lawsuit against you. So, they protect assets from creditors, they protect assets from divorcing spouses. And if you want to pass assets to grandchildren, you can use a bypass trust for this purpose, as well.
The drawback is the same drawback that applies to all trusts, which is that, trusts are much more complicated to maintain than most lawyers let on. It's not that they are necessarily trying to deceive you. They think of trusts as quite simple because they deal with them every day, but anyone who has ever been a trust beneficiary or the trustee of the family trust will tell you that it can really be a pain in the neck.
Benz: How about people who already have these trusts set up? It sounds like it's sort of a judgment call for people who are still in that mode, where they're doing there estate planning. What if you and your spouse have already setup this AB trust system? Should you dismantle it, or should you just hang on?
Jacobs: I don't see any harm in having it, but you do need to go back and look at your estate-planning documents to see how much money is destined for that trust because people who did their estate plans long ago and have not recently looked at them, might find that more money is--if the document says I want to fund the bypass trust up to the exemption amount, it's now $5 million plus, but in 2001, it was $675,000.
So, if you haven't done your documents in a long time, they may no longer reflect your intent. And especially for people who want to make sure that their spouse is adequately provided for, that $5 million might be all you've got. You might not want to be putting it into the bypass trust. The setup that I like the best for people who are just thinking of doing this or perhaps for people who are making slight amendments in their estate-planning documents--they want to leave the bypass trust, but they want to have maximum flexibility--the setup that I like is to give the surviving spouse the right to turn down--the legal terminology is "disclaim"--what they've inherited and have it go into the bypass trust.
Now, there is a joke: "A surviving spouse never disclaims." But I see no harm in setting up things this way. I think unless you have really compelling reasons for wanting a trust and your spouse is going to be comfortable living within the structure of this trust, which is another thing to think about I think it's much better to rely on portability, and I think most clients will want to go that route, even though most lawyers will probably tell them they're making a big mistake.
Benz: Deborah, thank you so much for being here to provide some color and discuss this complicated issue of portability. We really appreciate you being here.
Jacobs: Thank you for having me.
Benz: Thanks for watching, I am Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Oprah Winfrey, Jamie Foxx and Forest Whitaker are among the celebrities joining three presidents this week to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
Soledad O'Brien and Hill Harper will host the "Let Freedom Ring" commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech on Wednesday. President Barack Obama and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are also joining the tribute at the Lincoln Memorial.
Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, will speak at this year's march, along with Winfrey, Foxx and Whitaker.
Winfrey and Whitaker are starring in "Lee Daniels' The Butler," a movie about a man who served for seven presidents as a White House butler.
Musicians, including LeAnn Rimes and BeBe Winans, are scheduled to perform.
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- Premier League
Kompany sees red card overturned
The red card Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany received against Arsenal on Sunday has been rescinded.
Kompany, 26, was dismissed in the 75th minute of City's 2-0 win at Emirates Stadium after referee Mike Dean deemed his challenge on Jack Wilshere to be a red card offence.
City boss Roberto Mancini confirmed after the game the club's intention to appeal the decision, as the Belgian faced a three-match suspension.
The Premier League champions have been successful with their appeal, meaning Kompany is available for selection versus Fulham this weekend.
A statement on the FA's website read: "An Independent Regulatory Commission has today upheld a claim of wrongful dismissal regarding Manchester City's Vincent Kompany.
"The defender was dismissed for serious foul play during his side's match against Arsenal on Sunday 13 January 2013. As a result, Kompany's three-match suspension has been withdrawn with immediate effect."


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Tallahassee- July 11, 2012- 11:47pm
On Wednesday evening a group of FAMU freshmen entered Lee Hall for Freshmen Orientation. Their orientation fell on the same day the president of their brand new university turned in his resignation.
For months Dr. James Ammons has been under a cloud at Rattler Nation, beginning with the hazing death of Marching 100 drum major Robert Champion in November last year. Many people have criticized how Dr. Ammons has since handled hazing within the band.
"I think in order for students to understand the seriousness of hazing we have to first make the repercussions of it serious, I think a year for this young man's death isn't sufficient," said Kyle Washington who works in the FAMU Office of Student Activities.
He is referring to when Dr. Ammons decided to suspend the band for one year in the wake of the several hazing investigations that surfaced since Champion's death.
"I was very concerned for Dr. Ammons from day one with all this controversy," said Calvin Robinson, who has been a professor at FAMU for 17 years.
Robinson describes Dr. Ammons as down to Earth, approachable and a great leader.
"Dr. Ammons, I've always said was the man for the job. I'm sure he and I as anyone else have made mistakes or could have done things differently. But his success outweighs any mistake he may have made," said Robinson.
"It was definitely a surprise to the University community, we were not expecting this today," said Michael Jefferson, the Student Body Vice President at FAMU.
While some members of the student body say they're still coping with the news, they are looking forward to a new tomorrow.
"We are confident he made this decision in the best interest for his family and for the future progress of this institution," said Jefferson.
And they're confident that this new class of Rattlers will succeed as Florida A&M turns a page in its next chapter.
"We will be OK, we're Rattlers, we will strike out of this," said Robinson.


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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Waterford police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman they suspect took money and a credit card from a purse left briefly inside a Waterford grocery restroom.
Police said they were called to VG's Grocery at 5:31 p.m. on March 14.
There a 39-year-old White Lake woman at the store — located in the 7300 block of Highland and now temporarily closed for renovations — said several items had been taken from her purse including her credit card and $100 in cash.
The victim said she accidently left her purse in the restroom, and when she returned 10 minutes later, she found her purse in the garbage can.
When she looked inside the purse, she noticed her credit card, the cash, gift card and makeup had been taken.
The victim immediately called her credit card company to cancel the card and was told the card had been used in the VG's store and also had been used at a local gas station for $102.30 in purchases.
Surveillance video was requested and viewed. A woman seen in the business video is described as white with medium dark hair, mid to late 20s-30s, heavy set, wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, black vest, gray pants and black shoes. The woman suspect also had girl with her estimated to be between 2-4 years old.
Last July, Waterford police searched for another woman accused to stealing a woman's purse as she turned away to look at fruit in another grocery. That woman was eventually arrested.
Investigators are asking anyone who knows the VG's suspect or has any information about this incident to contact Waterford Police Detective Michael Morgan at 248-618-6664 or to stay anonymous, call the Tip Line at 248-674-COPS.


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So then you've got either a guaranteed sellout in a stadium that averages 80k+ over the years or some version of the current system except that the #2 game matters a lot more and fans are staring down the prospect of back to back trips.
This is my concern. How many Michigan fans (or OSU fans, Wisconsin fans, etc.) will be willing to fly out to the Rose Bowl to watch a semi-final that will not (in some years) even be in the same state as the final? This system may set up an even bigger advantage for the Pac-12 Rose Bowl team than they already have.


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I am a little unsure about how I feel about the Adrian Gonzalez trade with San Diego. Obviously, It will be great to have him in the lineup in 2011. That being said, Casey Kelly, Anthony Rizzo, Reymond Fuentes and a player to be named later are a very high price to pay.
First, The Sox have yet to sign Gonzalez to a long term deal. We had a roller coaster Sunday, wondering if the deal had gone through or not. The Padres get the better of the deal, it seems to me, if Boston can't sign Gonzalez beyond this year. Trades are a gamble for both sides, no question. This one is risky for the sake of the contract and Gonzalez' surgically repaired right shoulder. He passed his physical, yes, but it really seems like Theo went out on a limb to make this trade. Believe me, I want it to work out, but I'm not even close to being ready to sip any Kool-Aid on this one. It was one of baseballs' worst kept secrets how much Epstein coveted Gonzalez and the San Diego front office knew it.
Second, with Jed Hoyer as General Manager of the Padres and Jason McLeod and Josh Byrnes working in the front office, there was no way the Red Sox could slip a "suspect" in with the prospects. That group all worked in Boston for Theo and McLeod was responsible for drafting the trio. You have to believe that if the Padres wanted those young men specifically, they are all fast track guys with big upsides.
I suppose that if the Sox win the World Series in 2011, it will be worth it. How many more Julio Lugo type deals will Boston live with though, and still allow Theo to keep his job. We saw fan interest dwindle in 2010 with all the injuries and mediocre play. Epstein has a fairly good track record. Not impeccable, but good. Two World titles buy a lot of good will, but the sellout streak will come to a screeching halt this year (although some might say it did last season) if Boston doesn't make a run at the A.L. East crown.
I'm a little bummed that we won't ever get to see that trio play for Pawtucket. I first met Casey Kelly when I was the voice of the Syracuse Chiefs and his dad, Pat Kelly was the manager. Young Casey, 8 or 9 at the time hung around the ballpark. He was a nice boy and he has grown into an outstanding man. I wish him well. I don't know Anthony Rizzo, but I have heard great things about him. He, like Jon Lester, has battled cancer. How can you not root for him? Fuentes is very often compared to his cousin Carlos Beltran and is still just 19 years old.
The stove is finally heating up. The Red Sox have made a splash. Ironically, it was the great work that McLeod did as the scouting director for Boston that enabled the Sox to make the deal, and thus help his new club as well. You never know how a trade will work. I have a feeling the jury will be out for a while on this one.


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Bet you weren't expecting The Crafter's Workshop to start making die cut products, were you? Many of their dies, and some of their new stencils are geared toward Project Life and the current pocketed page protector craze.
You'll also see stencils by their brand new designer, Ronda Palazzari. And of course, there's plenty from Dina Wakley, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, and designer and founder, Jamie Echt.


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Lez in the Dez: Club Skirts the Dinah Brings 20,000 to Palm Springs
The flash of cameras light up the rhinestones on my vintage Studio 54 T-shirt as I skirt the edge of the red carpet at the Palm Springs Convention Center (PSCC). It's Saturday night at the world's biggest women's party, Club Skirts The Dinah, and I'm about to have a personal meet and greet with headliners, lesbian twins Tegan and Sara.
The ballroom is packed with women dressed in wild outfits for the Black Party -- the main event in a week chock full of pool parties, concerts, comedy shows, and a new film festivals. Drinks are flowing, energy is high and the girls just wanna have fun.
Palm Springs, already a gay mecca in California's Coachella Valley desert, is overflowing at the seams with the influx of 20,000 lesbians from across the country and around the world, who have converged here to let their hair down for a weekend of lesbian bacchanalia.
Let the Partying Begin
Women began arriving on Wednesday night, April 2, for this five-day event, now celebrating its 24th year. A welcome party at local nightclub Zeldaz gave early arrivals a chance to get the lay of the land, and a sunny Thursday morning allowed guests -- a surprising number of whom traveled from Canada and points north -- to get a jump start on their tan.
Although the bulk of the women here are from nearby Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Bay Area, women make the hejira from far flung locales around the world to attend what is now considered the Holy Grail of lesbian parties. The scrum around the poolside is like a United Nations of lesbians, with languages and accents mingling as these friendly women get to know one another.
Thursday night's comedy showcase features the UK's Gina Yashere, who has the audience in stitches with her comparisons of British and American racism, the latter's overt kind being her preference. Sharing the bill are funny ladies Erin Foley and "Chelsea Lately" star Fortune Feimster. The hilarious Suzanne Westenhoefer emcees the event, which goes over like gangbusters.
Hitting the Dance Floor
To be certain, there are a lot of laughs, but in the end, these women are here to party and they hit the dance floor hard. At Friday night's White Party, also held at the PSCC, headliner Iggy Azalea has guests bouncing like the ample bosoms of the go-go girls with her new hit, "Beat Down."
Their crisp white outfits only serve to show off the tans they've cultivated earlier in the day, poolside at the Hilton Hotel pool party. The scene there is hopping on Friday, as DJ Lisa Pittman spins records and the women dance and splash around. In the lobby, Romaine Patterson and guest Frank DeCaro host a special on-site episode of their popular Sirius Q program, OutQ.
Saturday's "The L Word" pool party, with cast members Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig -- plus Laurel Holloman signing her art prints by the pool -- draws even more women out for fun in the sun. Across town at the Saguaro Hotel, another group of revelers enjoy the Retro Pool Party, a more low-key event that allows for variety, that spice of life.
Dinah DJ's pit their skills in The Battle of the DJ's, a chop-shop contest that only allows the women 90 seconds to show their skills. Someone wins, but in the hatchet job of turn-now-flip-and-reverse-it, everyone sort of loses. No matter, the ladies are already gathering up their beach balls and heading back to their hotels to get ready for Saturday night's Black Party.
Of course, Tegan & Sara rock the Palm Springs Convention Center, and as women file out of the show, dazed, many head straight for the tables for the celebrity poker event, to benefit HRC. Others step out to the patio for a breath of fresh air before returning to the ballroom to dance their asses off.
The Last Hurrah
After nearly a week of partying in the desert sun, women rise like zombies on Sunday morning, staggering to the Hilton Hotel pool for one last blast, and an early evening concert with "Same Love" singer Mary Lambert. We are happy to report that not only does Lambert have the voice of an angel, she also has the disposition of one, laying a big hug on journalists during a post-concert meet and greet.
As the sun set over the desert, the ladies pack up their things and head to the closing night party at Zeldaz Nightclub, where singer Thea Austin is performing. A hundred hours of non-stop lesbian bacchanalia under their belt, and these women are still ready to dance, almost as if to prove to the world that gay men do not have the market cornered when it comes to partying hard.
For more information on Club Skirts The Dinah, visit: http://thedinah.com. To plan your trip to Palm Springs, visit www.visitgaypalmsprings.com


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November 24, 2008
International Education Week was held at Mount Union College November 16-22. Special events were featured everyday to promote international awareness on campus and in the community.
The Foreign Film Festival movies, including a film panel presentation and audience discussion, featured cinematic works from a different country each day. Mini Language Lessons on German, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Vietnamese were also offered.
A Celebration of Languages, sponsored by Alpha Mu Gamma & The Department of Foreign Languages, was held on Tuesday. Students and faculty had the opportunity to enjoy several appetizers and play numerous games highlighting countries worldwide for a variety of prizes.
On Friday, the International Tea featuring Europe offered treats and more as international students from various European countries shared about their respective countries with the group.
The Making a Difference Worldwide Display rounded out Friday's events.
On Saturday, the annual International Dinner was held in the Kresge Dining Commons. Organized each year the Association of International Students, the dinner highlights not only food from around the world, but cultural customs and traditions as well through a variety of performances and presentations.


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Cool: a transparent roof section – it brightens up the interior of your car and adds a new dimension to driving among skyscrapers. Not cool: that the transparent roof section amplifies the greenhouse effect inside your car, slow-roasting you, your family and your interior. Sure, Ford made sunshades available in their mid-1950s Skyliners, but in hindsight, maybe Ford should have included air conditioning standard with the transparent top, a combination that appears in this 1955 Ford Crown Victoria Skyliner for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller's description:
Ultra rare true U5FF car, 1of 1,599 produced, options include: SelectAire the very first year that Ford offered air conditioning and is one of 402 cars in total, 1,270 miles since frame-off rotisserie restoration, 272 Y-block, Ford-o-Matic transmission, power steering and seats, beautiful Lexon top, dual exhaust, continental kit, fender skirts, detailed undercarriage, ribbon winner at Meadowbrook Concourse d'Elegance. Runs and drives excellent.
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Nice. First of the chrome basket-handle models. The Y-block, already bigger since into the year before, wasn't particularly strong, compared to the Chevrolet's new engine. It was a better car than many, but remained in the Chevy's shadow.
I love these car's as I remember a few of them from my youth.
Wonderful car. The stupidity of the color makes me want to drown the owner in a cesspool. Twice, just to make sure it will not happen again,
Could it be that those are the original colors? and that the owner wanted to restore the car as original? Those bright colors were popular back in the day. Be careful down by the cesspool. You might be the first one in.
Ha ha! Laughed my butt off! And I think that was an original color as there are at least (2) such vehicles in my neck of the woods.
Yes sir Mr. Rainbowpsr… those ARE the original colors of Snowshoe White and Tropical Rose. I think they are beautiful. Wouldn't want them on my 2003 Mustang or 2002 DeVille, but what better statement of the times than a hot pink and white color scheme?!?
Ford also had a tamer shade of pink on the palette for '55- Coral Mist.
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I hate to tell you, but that is an original color. I had a chance to buy a pink Crown Vic in pristine condition about 30 years ago; only problem with it was a stuck valve. They wanted $3,200, which at the time might as well have been $32,000 to me.
In addition to the greenhouse effect, the Crown Vics had an interior chrome moulding that a tall driver could hit his head on if not careful (been there, done that). In spite of the unique roof line of the Crown I prefer the '55 Victoria hardtop.
I believe the vicky & crown vicky had the same roofline in '55. It was '56 the had a more aero vicky roofline.
Pete. The crown vic in 55 and 56 have the exact same roof line. The Victoria hard top in 55 had a high roof line like the 55 ford sedans. The 56 victoria had the same roof line as the crowns of 55 and 56. Also the 56 Mercury montclair had the low roof line just like the crown vic and took the same windshield. The lower roof lines in the crowns made it all come together as classy and chopped topped cool. .
Rainbowpsr, believe it or not that is probably a factory color as they were trying to get women into their cars. I could get past the color to own one of these fine Fords. It is still a beautiful car.
Poor choice of a car for Phoenix. Better suited to the states where you can watch the rain and snow pitter-patter.
In the winter the glasstop would get frost on the inside. After you turned on the heat it would start dripping on your head.
I remember riding to the beach in a brand-new Mercury with this same kind of transparent green front roof section (and no air). By the time we got to the beach we were fried and covering ourselves with newspapers trying to get away from the searing sun! So yes, it looked wonderful, but definitely needed a shade. But so what? My modern Cadillac with the AstroRoof sliding glass roof has the same problem… SO? They built in a sliding shade. Big deal. I'd rather have the glass roof ANYWAY.
AND… For some odd reason, people today can't seem to remember that PINK was THE "IN-STYLE" color for the mid 1950s. I was there. I lived it. THe cool thing to have THEN was pink shirts with charcoal slacks and ties. Heck they showed this stuff in all of the fashion magazines–even LIFE magazine. I doubt if there was one car maker that did NOT have a pink color in their palette for 1955-56. Packard had THREE shades of pink during this period: Rose Quartz, Scottish Heather, and Flamingo–the latter a last-minute addition to compete against Cadillac's pale pink shade. Look in the postings right on this very page and you will see Alex Tremulis' Ford LaTosca pictured in PINK (even though it was actually another color). The same was done with another illustration of the Ford Mystere (it too was NOT done in pink). These illustrations were done because PINK was the "IN" color of the time… and if that's what people wanted–that is what they got! Now, true, pink fell a bit out of favor unless you were Elvis–who, incidentally insisted on it for his mom's Cadillac–NOT just because it was a female color, but because pink was considered COOL. It took all the way until 1970 before pink came back a little bit (Panther Pink and Moulin Rouge on Mopar vehicles). You can't use the macho logic and taste of 2011 in assessing what was cool or uncool in the 1950s. A different time…different world, I can assure you. I have lived in BOTH.
I happened to be looking at '58 Olds color chips on Monday, and they offered Heather, Desert Glow, Canyon Glow and Rose Mist–all of which I'd consider a shade of pink. Plus Mountain Haze, a very soft purple.
Personally, I think the pink shirt/charcoal slacks look is still sharp, but what do I know–I'm a child of the Seventies. I like high-waisted pants, too. Get offa my lawn!
I fully agree with Len Dixon here, this is a Period correct car and color and worth more $$ for that alone and probably much more than a "standard" color. CJ
I believe this car is finished in Tropical Rose and Snowshoe White which is a correct 1955 Ford color combination option. Ford also offered Regency Purple that year. These were "springtime colors" offered in mid 1955.
It was a different time with a different sensibility. I remember my uncle's charcoal grey, pink and white '56 DeSoto hardtop.
Amen, Leon! I agree with you. I was there, too. I worked in a big office [averaged 500 people for the 40 years I was there] and that 'pink' era came [and went] along with a lot of other bright and pastel colors. We picked up a new '56 Dodge 2dr hardtop in Detroit [at the factory] for my boss and drove it back out here to California, it was pink, white and charcoal gray. He was a very conservative man,but that's what he ordered and the very 1st day he brought it to work, he wore a bright pink shirt, charcoal pants and a white sports coat!Oh yes, and a RED tie. He was the talk of the office!
I had to show these pics to my Dad; one of his first late model cars was a '55 convertible. His father was worried for his safety and insisted that Dad trade it for something-anything-else. So, dutifully, Dad drove uptown to the Ford dealer and traded it for a glasstop Crown Victoria! He says my grandfather really hit the roof (no pun intended) when he saw that pull in the driveway!
Dad tells me that both cars had the same engine/transmission but the convertible could run circles around the glasstop.
How about combining that glass roof and installing clear plastic seat covers. Now you really have a sweatbox..
I believe there was a same year Crown Victoria Skyliner Glass Top even with same colors sold this Sept at Barrett Jackson for almost $100,000 with commision without this rare factory a/c. This looks like a pretty good deal. It's almost half the price. I wish I had the dough.
I just love these Ford Crown Victorias.I never had any 55s but owned a few 56s.I had a two door and four door hardtop,three Crown Victorias,one was red and white ,one black and white,and a Meteror that was black with orange on the side,also I had a yellow 56 Ford convertable.Now I own a 72 Ford LTD customized convertable and a 81 Chrysler Cordoba ,red and white Coach model.While these two are lots of fun I still favour the 55 and 56 Fords .They have so much class and fun to drive.One day I hope to own one again.
No outside rear-view mirrors?!?!?
I wasn't aware these were called "Skyliner" – thought that was reserved for the 'flip-top box' cars of '57 – '59.
My first friend's dad worked for Francis Ford in close-in Portland, OR back then. Came home one day with a virtual twin to this car (I don't recall A/C – too young to care!), but it was a 3-on-the-tree with overdrive and I'm certain it had a 4-barrel carb. Even then I thought it a bit gaudy, but the roof panel was the cat's meow!! SO cool!!!
These 1955 Crown Victoria Skyliner Glasstops are the rarest Fairlanes to be produced. Resent auction sales have skyrocketed. There are said to be be 186 in exsistance in Worldwide tallies taken from the 2 major Ford Motor Company registries. Only 402 with factory Air Conditioning
Wow what a car. I was born in 1947 so that puts me old enough to remember these and other colorful Fords. 1955,56,57,58 all had various color combos. I remember two twin Brothers who had 1956 Crown Vics one was Pink and White the other Yellow and Black those four years were Fords most Colorful years so many different color combos. and in 1959 everythig as far as color went south shame too.
Jim, I was born in 1947, also. Perhaps you remember that in the early fifties, a very popular color combination was charcoal and pink. Stylish men wore pink shirts with charcoal suits. And the 55 Chevy featured this combination. A popular novel was "the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit." Very stylish at the time, and I'm sure this pink and white was a correct for the period combination, and very popular. American automobiles of the fifties may not have had the technology of today, but they were surely more artful.
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Ah yes those wonderful Ol Fords 50s and 60s are my favorite. Someplace I ran into a Paint color sheet with codes for them. I mean like 30 different factory colors. Like this beauty Pink and White. Friend had a 57 Black and yellow wow that was a beauty.


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attention all ej20 engine specialists
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Posted 16 March 2006 - 11:57 AM
Is it a dead miss? Can you feel it?
Or is it setting the misfire codes with no noticable miss?
More info is better.
Posted 16 March 2006 - 12:49 PM
Posted 16 March 2006 - 02:04 PM
Posted 16 March 2006 - 02:12 PM
Probably exhaust valves.
Posted 16 March 2006 - 06:42 PM
Exhaust valve?? What do you think the possibility of two exhaust valves on opposite sides of the engine (in a USA car 1 & 3 are on the pass side and 2 & 4 are on the driver side) would go bad at the same time. Not likely. Please have the timing checked and make sure the timing belt is set correctly. Since the ECU reads input from both the crank and cam sensor, if there is a slight difference the timing will be off. The crank angle sensor is the constant, the cam angle sensor is the variable.
OK, it is a dead miss at idle up to 3000 RPM.
Probably exhaust valves.
You aren't the one who put the 2004 WRX engine into their 2002 WRX are you?
Posted 16 March 2006 - 07:01 PM
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:05 PM
I don't think he has pulled the codes, although that would certainly help.
For one there was no mention of code P0341...................But then again there hasn't been a whole lot of info giving:rolleyes:
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:45 PM
Really all I know for sure at this point is that the shotgun diagnostics failed.
More info would be a good thing.
Compression reading from affected cylinders?
For the price of two ignition coils I'm betting you could get a nice compression gage.
Have you checked all vacuum lines checked for vacuum leaks around intake?
How many miles on engine?
Service history of engine?, other than new plugs and coils.
Performance mods?
The WRX tends to encourage spirited driving. Do you run it hard, or drive it like an old lady?
Posted 17 March 2006 - 08:41 AM
Yea, I read that too and was wondering how he knew that, if he does have the codes, telling us that would be very helpful.
From opening post. "....my cars ecu is saying that cylinders two n three are misfiring..."
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05.28.13KODA Distribution Group has acquired EW Kaufmann, headquartered in Bristol, PA.
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