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Having served as an educator, administrator and admissions officer, I am obliged to note that the practice of "gender norming" in college admissions is hardly new.
It is the dirtiest little secret in higher education, primarily because it operates in favor of young white male applicants in the form of quotas. Without this practice, nearly all of the elite, historically male colleges would be more than 80 percent female.
March 24, 2006
"It is the dirtiest little secret in higher education..."
37 comments:
- Karl said...
> 80%? That's just preposterous. The whole story smells like a ruse to make affirmative action programs more palatable to white males.
- Daryl Herbert said...
Males are over-represented at the highest part of the IQ bell curve (as well as the lowest part), so I doubt that the most elite institutions are the ones at risk of testosterone devoidancy. More likely it's the middle-range institutions that would suffer excess feminization.
- Bruce Hayden said...
Daryl Herbert
But how do the admissions offices know that all these guys are so brilliant? SATs? Grades?
I suggested in the previous thread that part of the problem is that K-12 had become so female oriented that getting good grades was getting harder and harder for guys, in comparison to girls.
One example I used was that homework had become so important in many classes that even if a guy gets the highest test grades in the class, he can end up with a B or C in the class if he doesn't get in his homework. Back in the 1960s, when I was in high school, I would often get an A in the class for doing that.
From a guy's point of view, if the purpose of homework is to learn the subject matter, then if he can get an A on the tests (and, in particular, if he can get the high grades), without doing the homework, then homework is make-work. And, on average, girls are IMHO significantly better at doing that sort of make-work in order to make their teachers happy with them.
That the guys may be brilliant is really irrelevant, or, maybe even counterproductive. My experience is that the smarter the guys, the less willing they are to put up with arbitrary BS (like make-work homework that they see as wasting their time).
So, how do the colleges identify those brilliant guys? From a combination of grades and SATs? No, because often their grades are lower than those of girls with comparable SATs and IQs. But if the schools actually hold their grades to a lower standard, then they are doing what that article suggests - giving them preferences.
- downtownlad said...
I don't believe the 80% number for a second.
Two out of three parts of the SAT section are verbal though, and that is surely a way to pull female scores up. But men are still better test takers. But women do have better grades than men in high school. That is an indisputable fact.
But I have no problem with discriminating against women. Striving for a 50/50 sex ratio seems like the right thing to do. If you're a female, you have a much easier chance of getting into MIT or Cal Tech than if you are male. So it works both ways.
- downtownlad said...
Since when is homework easy?
I was in the top 1% of my high school class, and I can't recall one person finding homework easy. If you did - you were obviously in the wrong class.
The AP classes are extremely challenging. And homework involved reading novels, writing 20-page essays, doing science experiments, etc. You couldn't skip that stuff and still expect to ace the exams, unless you were an Einstein.
Maybe it was easy back in the 1950's, but not anymore.
So I don't buy the homework excuse.
I think it's obvious why girls do better than men in high school. Not because women are smarter, but because they try harder. Plus, men have a stronger sex drive (especially as a teenager) and that has got to be more distracting to them than it is to women.
- Bob said...
Already the faculty is 97% non-male.
- Dave said...
I say we encourage men to boycott school! Clearly, school is biased against young men, and we are depriving our young men of their best years by forcing them to go to school.
One need only look to the inner city to see the fulfilling lives led by young men who forgo their education!
Can we all stop the bitching here? Look, what matters in life is that a person, male or female, get into college, get a degree, and have marketable skills that can pay a decent salary. One doesn't need to go to Princeton for that, and one doesn't need to take AP exams in high school or ace the SATs. Last time I checked, there were tens of thousands of less-than-stellar high school students getting into college, getting degrees, and earning salaries far above the media.
I should know--I was one of those less-than-stellar high school students who nonetheless got into college, got a degree (in three years no less!) and earn a good wage.
- Elizabeth said...
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- Elizabeth said...
Dave, bravo.
- Elizabeth said...
These confident statements about the differences between men and women in school are way overblown. I too spent my high school years blowing off homework and acing exams, and I wasn't an anomoly among the girls I went to school with.
Now, as an instructor, I have women who have to be prodded to do the work, who show up for the quizzes and think that's good enough, and men who are on time with every little thing.
Boys have managed to do their sums, copy, memorize, work their problems on the board, and so forth, for generations. I think there's a lot of romanticizing going on; Ann's pointed out the "women do it better" meme that crops up in comparisons of men and women. I'll propose the "men just need to be free" meme that seeks to blame "excess feminization" for problems with numerous sources.
- Aspasia M. said...
I suggested in the previous thread that part of the problem is that K-12 had become so female oriented that getting good grades was getting harder and harder for guys, in comparison to girls.
What??? Getting good grades in high school is simple. Are you kidding me?
"...if he doesn't get in his homework."
University will present a problem if a student can't meet deadlines.
If the boy is bored then school ain't hard enough. Put him into the AP Calculus, Honors English and AP Chem class.
Boys at Exeter have no problem getting good grades and turning in their work.
Tell 'em to stop being a bunch of slackers.
- Yevgeny Vilensky said...
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- Yevgeny Vilensky said...
geoduck2 (and to some extent Elizabeth) --
I went to an above-average suburban high-school in a wealthy predominantly Jewish school district. I almost never did my homework, despite being in every single AP class the school offered and then some. Thankfully my teachers didn't care very much since I always scored as one of the top handful of students in the class, and then aced the AP exams as well. About 90% of the girls I went to school with did all of the homework they were assigned. About half of the guys did, the others did not.
Yes, meeting deadlines and doing your work is important. But even in good schools (aside from your Exeters and Andovers), even in the challenging AP classes, the classes are just not terribly challenging. What is the point of doing the homework? For busy-work? Exeter and Andover are more challenging than probably 75% of all colleges in this country. So of course, there, boys do do their homework because if they don't, they won't know the material.
Anyway, there definitely are schools where not doing homework is heavily penalized and boys tend to (in my experience) feel the brunt of the penalization).
As for downtown lad --
Yes, essays are technically homework, though I would classify them as projects. By homework I (and I think others) mean doing dozens of rote exercises out of the textbook for math, physics and chem, doing a little fill-in-the-blanks sheet for your history/social studies class, etc. That kind of day-to-day stuff, not just major papers and projects. I know of places where this day-to-day minutia accounts for upwards of 40% of a student's grade.
- Daryl Herbert said...
But how do the admissions offices know that all these guys are so brilliant? SATs? Grades?
SATs yes, grades no (grades are much more complicated than raw estimates of intelligence... SAT isn't perfect but it's a lot closer). Grades are a joke (they depend on the teachers, the classes, whether or not the student gets extra points for "honors" classes, etc.) I also agree(?) that the extra writing section on the SAT is BS, but it's important for boys to learn how to write.
It's better for me this time around because the LSAT is closer to a true intelligence test. Nobody gets any free points for showing up, sitting still or doing make-work. It's an even playing field, like it should be.
From a guy's point of view, if the purpose of homework is to learn the subject matter, then if he can get an A on the tests (and, in particular, if he can get the high grades), without doing the homework, then homework is make-work.
You are preaching to the choir on that point. Story of my life. I had two teachers who understood that, and--surprise, surprise--both were math teachers. One had a formal program for letting students off the hook for not doing homework if they got good enough scores on the weekly quizzes. That's the way it ought to be.
- Andy said...
But I have no problem with discriminating against women. Striving for a 50/50 sex ratio seems like the right thing to do. If you're a female, you have a much easier chance of getting into MIT or Cal Tech than if you are male. So it works both ways. - downtownlad
Care to justify this? I can't speak for that summer school, but MIT admissions has stated many times that they are genderblind. (Recruiting, on the other hand, has been heavily targeted at women in an effort to get more women to apply). Yes, women have a higher acceptance rate, but that's a meaningless statistic without correlating the quality of the applicant pools.
- bogbinder said...
It is worth noting that the re-norming of the SAT flattens out distinction at the right tail of the bell curve. Fifteen years ago, a genius with a penchant for ignoring make-work homework might score near 1600 and thereby demonstrate incontrovertible mental acuity. Under the new scoring dispensation, Harvard has more "perfect score" applicants than slot (or so I've heard tell).
- Ann Althouse said...
Elizabeth: "I'll propose the "men just need to be free" meme that seeks to blame "excess feminization" for problems with numerous sources."
Good point. Feminism has traditionally gone after such assertions, which I remember as being very common in the 60s.
- Slocum said...
> 80%? That's just preposterous.
Maybe it isn't, and I think that's due to two factors. The first two involves changes in high school grading in recent decades (as several commenters have noted)--changes that that, on average, hurt males. No longer is it not enough to master the material and demonstrate mastery on exams to get a high grade--you must follow all the rules, do all the busy work and meet all the deadlines (of teachers who are more and more likely to be female--even in math and science at the HS level). High-stakes exams are now considered suspect and so the weighting of tests and homework have shifted. To further assist the dutiful and diligent (but not brilliant) student, extra credit work is almost always available as well.
Every year, our local paper publishes a 'top graduates' section in June. At every school in the area, I believe all these students are graduating with 4.0 averages (or higher--due to honors/AC classes). These are the Ivy candidates and, on average, 2 out of 3 are girls.
Dovetailing with those grading trends is the trend by colleges and universities to put a lower emphasis on standardized test scores and a greater emphasis on grades (as, I believe, a way of seeking diversity--underrepresented minorties are more competitve in terms of high-school GPA than SAT/ACT scores). One of the interesting things about the University of Michigan Supreme Court case was that the formula used for undergraduate admission decisions was made public. High SAT scores yielded far fewer 'admissions points' than high HS grades.
So, when elite colleges and universities are practicing 'affirmative action' for boys, what I believe they are doing is reverting to the old practice of giving greater weight to SAT scores. I would bet that the admitted males have lower high-school grades than female applicants but not lower SAT scores.
- Joe said...
> 80%? That's just preposterous.
I have no doubt that if college applications were stripped of all gender indicators, the percentage of women admitted would be just about that. It seems clear that the school's idea (in general) of their perfect student has been explicitly rejected by boys (assuming that K-12 has informed them correctly what that ideal is).
Sort of like the libertines of the '20 and hippies of the '60s.
Who's right in this disagreement? I don't know, but I do know that the students have been much more consistant over the past 40 years in this than the institutions. And *that* seems very odd.
- DR said...
It's true these days that most of "top student" indicators are things more readily mastered (or rather tolerated) by girls than boys.
Dont forget the role of extracurriculars too in the Ivy league derby. Girls do tend to excel at the kind of altruistic, "friend of man" stuff that colleges eat up. Most boys couldnt be bothered.
It's indisputable that boys excel at the SAT/ACT part and if schools weighted that more, the imbalances would likely vanish. But colleges are stressing good grades, extracurriculars, essays, teacher recommendations and the like. Those things do tend to favor girls, big time.
- Bruce Hayden said...
I don't see it that boys have rejected schools' idea of the perfect student, but rather K-12 schools have rejected boys and endorsed girls as the perfect students.
And I had forgotten about extra credit. I recently saw a math grade for one girl of over 100% for a term, due to extra credit.
Finally, these are all averages. Yes, there are girls out there who are not into homework and try to get by on testing (and are thus also disadvantaged by giving more weight to such), and there are guys who do all their homework. But on average, I will submit that girls are more likely to get their homework in, and do it right, than boys are, and less likely to find themselves in the position of getting A's on tests, but B's or C's in the class due to their homework grades.
- DR said...
Maybe I'm being unfair, but college admissions seems to favor the kind of PC, "paint inside the numbers" profile that favors girls.
But let's be clear, college set their own criteria for admission and they tweak the formula heavily to increase diversity and admit more low test, high "life experience" minority candidates.
Those same criteria disadvantage boys (presumably white and Asian boys) while helping minorities (who have separate admissions standards) and girls.
- Eli Blake said...
Bruce Hayden:
Your teachers were apparently way too nice to you.
I teach at a community college and I make homework a substantial part of the grade and here is why: it goes beyond the purely academic knowledge part of the course. It also focuses on keeping a schedule and doing what is required.
Most students plan to gain employment at some time. And when they do, they will be expected to keep a schedule and do what the boss asks them to, whether they 'already know' everything or not.
If you had me, and gotten A's on the tests but not handed in homework (which I count as 20% of the grade), you'd have gotten a 'C.'
- Icepick said...
It is the dirtiest little secret in higher education, primarily because it operates in favor of young white male applicants in the form of quotas. Without this practice, nearly all of the elite, historically male colleges would be more than 80 percent female.
Well, then, the colleges must not be teaching the hard sciences or engineering anymore.
I remember when a couple of friends of mine went to an orientation for new students in the engineering college of their university. There were about 120 students in the room, and there was a palable sexual charge in the air: the new class of engineering students had THREE female students! The guys couldn't believe their luck!
When the first speaker got up to talk and thanked everyone for attending the Engineering College, the three young women realized they were in the wrong room and left. The entire room deflated!
Coming out of the hard sciences myself, I find that 80% number to be laughable, and it makes me wonder what this Vaughn A. Carney's educational background is. Probably has a PhD in Education, LOL!
- DR said...
Another point that bears mention here is how competitive college admissions have become and how the prepping for admissions begins earlier and earlier for kids. There's an increasing emphasis on the right kind of extracurriculars. It's not enough to be on the debating team; one needs to be state champ, or have done some type of extraordinary achievement.
We all know boys mature later than girls, have less tendency to be organized about their lives, especially in early teen years when college prep and strategizing happens.
By the time many boys get their heads together, it's really too late for the top schools and they're 2-3 years behind the girls in planning.
- PatCA said...
"dirty little secret"
I don't get the "dirty." Either you choose freshmen on data like grades and scores, and end up with mostly Asians and females, or you introduce social engineering criteria.
In a way, the fact that women are now seen as overrepresented is an indication that they've "made it" in the social engineering model.
It's nobody's right to go to Princeton, even if historically their ancestors were rejected unfairly. The one thing a name school can do is provide students with a network of alumni in high places. But if a kid has to choose between Berkeley undergrad or Cal State Whatever for a liberal arts BA, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.
- Aspasia M. said...
Yevgeny Vilensky,
People are doing busy work in high school? This is a big problem.
In science classes we were tested on labs, written essays and tests.
We didn't turn in daily assignments or worksheets or such. That's third grade nonsense.
We did have to write up the results of our lab work.
For history and my english classes we wrote papers (5 to 20 pages depending on the assignment) and the teacher gave in-class essay tests. The teacher would give in-class pop quizzes to test that we were reading the assigned books. Mostly we talked about the books in class and were graded on class participation. We also gave some in-class public talks.
Civics class: In-class public presentation of our projects, essay papers, in-class tests. I don't remember any daily homework.
Debate Class: In class debates & essays on rhetoric and politics. We mostly researched in the library.
International Cooking class: We did have to judge food. We filled out a ratings sheet after eating their results. It was all finished in class. I wrote one 5 page research paper on Italian food and culture.
Only in math classes were there daily homework assignments and tests.
I went to a public high school in a upper-middle class district. (Late 1980s, early 90s.) The school was well-funded.
I can't imagine doing worksheets or busywork nonsense in high school. That's horrible. I'd probably ignore the busy work too. I'm female and I'd be very annoyed at busy work.
It sounds like our high schools are way too easy.
- Elizabeth said...
Ann, I think that debate goes back to Wollstonecraft and Rousseau.
- Slocum said...
I teach at a community college and I make homework a substantial part of the grade and here is why: it goes beyond the purely academic knowledge part of the course. It also focuses on keeping a schedule and doing what is required.
Most students plan to gain employment at some time. And when they do, they will be expected to keep a schedule and do what the boss asks them to, whether they 'already know' everything or not.
Yeah, right. Standard teacher explanation -- following every pointless rule may have no bearing on your mastery of the material, but...making yourself do pointless things at the direction of authority figures is an important part of life! Aaarrgghhh!!!
But, fortunately, the world of work really is NOT like that. Hell, most of higher education isn't even like that.
People get a bit behind and then work harder and catch up absolutely all the time. How many people go in for a couple hours on Saturday to clean up work they didn't finish during the week? Do bosses take 'points off' every day for every piece of paper that wasn't 'turned in' that day? Or do businesses set overall expectations and major deadlines and give employees flexibility in working toward them? And do they care about rule following or results? The good employers provide flexibility and care about results.
And so do good schools and teachers. But, unfortunately (as your comment suggests), there seem to be relatively fewer of those than their used to be.
- Cousin Don said...
I wonder how much of this all is the trend towards liberal arts colleges. It seems that a liberal arts education has become the 21st century equivalent of the high school degree. Many males used to drop out of high school because they didn't see it as necessary to be a factory worker or mechanic or house painter or whatever profession they aimed at.
Is that why there are less men trying hard to get into college (by doing well in high school), because they just don't see it as necessary step to do what they want to do?
- Slocum said...
Most students plan to gain employment at some time. And when they do, they will be expected to keep a schedule and do what the boss asks them to, whether they 'already know' everything or not.
One thing I forgot to add. I have a friend who teaches who was having a faculty meeting where teachers were discussing having consistent penalties for late work. He asked them what sort of consistent penalties would be appropriate for teachers who didn't grade and return tests immediately, who didn't keep lesson plans and grade books up-to-date, etc. You can guess the general reaction to that proposal.
My kids have had a number of teachers who were inflexible about student work being on time or else (for the good of the kids of naturally)--but were perfectly willing to cut themselves as much slack as they needed in getting grading done and papers and tests returned, in keeping parents informed of student progress, of keeping online course notes up-to-date, and so on.
- Aspasia M. said...
There's different types of kids out there. Some are very responsible and do not abuse flexible policies.
Other kids try to take advantage of nice people.
I had a kid who was missing a morning class, on a regular basis. He would track me down in my office around 11:00 am, claim he was sick that morning, and want a repeat of the teaching for the day. He did this at least 10 times before I began to ask him if he had health problems or was simply hung over from alcohol.
I'm all for being flexible for reasonable stuff. But there are kids who try to take advantage and they cause problems for everyone.
The majority of kids are pretty responsible, and when I was teacing I would be very flexible.
But the bold ones - the ones that try to take advantage - can be really outrageous.
For example - the same kid who was missing class (due to alcohol) plagiarized a paper. I caught him with google.
- Slocum said...
I had a kid who was missing a morning class, on a regular basis. He would track me down in my office around 11:00 am, claim he was sick that morning, and want a repeat of the teaching for the day. He did this at least 10 times before I began to ask him if he had health problems or was simply hung over from alcohol.
Well, fine, but that's very different that what we've talking about -- employees who show up hung over at 11:00 do get fired quickly. But teachers who decide they'd rather watch a DVD on Sunday night rather than press on and finish grading a batch of tests, and then don't return them until Tuesday or Wednesday face no consequences at all, but that same teacher's students who make the same call with respect to homework due on Monday will typically lose a lot of credit (maybe half, maybe everything). Can you imagine teachers being docked half a day's pay for late work?
Thirteen-year-olds deserve a lot more slack than adult professionals, but in my experience they get a lot less.
- Daryl Herbert said...
The "excess feminization" comment was a joke on the "excess whiteness" index (http://academic.udayton.edu/TheWhitestLawSchools/2005TWLS/Chapter5/Regional01.htm) blogged about in different places, including the Volokh Conspiracy http://www.volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_01_22-2006_01_28.shtml#1138139295 and Joe's DartBlog http://www.dartblog.com/data/004872.html )
- Elizabeth said...
Slocum, there is a penalty in my university for not holding up my end as an instructor. A tenured instructor was forced to retire last semester based on a series of three semesters' complaints about really extreme failures to keep up with grading, assignments and missing classes. That's an exceptional example. But every faculty member is assessed by students each semester, and in my department, specific questions on those student evaluations make up more than 50 percent of the criteria that determine whether instructors are retained (a sort of lesser version of tenure) and professors move up the tenure track.
I don't assign "busywork" because it doesn't advance the goals of the class. I ask students to write most of their assignments in class (it helps head off plagiarism); out-of-class work has practical applications. Quizzes are to make sure the reading gets done on time so classroom discussions are worthwhile. Most of our students work, and have a good work ethic in class as a result. They're already learning or have long developed time management skills. Though I'm not happy with all of the effects of the modern consumer mentality students have, it does encourage them to get their money's worth from their classroom experience.
- Pete Hallman said...
"I teach at a community college and I make homework a substantial part of the grade and here is why: it goes beyond the purely academic knowledge part of the course. It also focuses on keeping a schedule and doing what is required.
Most students plan to gain employment at some time. And when they do, they will be expected to keep a schedule and do what the boss asks them to, whether they 'already know' everything or not."
This ridiculous comment is example 1A (sorry, Ann) of the adage 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach'. Has this person ever experienced work in the reality-based business world, where theory sounds nice, but practice is King? Good grief - knowing every little rule is more than worthless; it inhibits actual production. The truly successful have developed personal systems and strategies that work best for them, and don't follow a 'one size fits all' formula. They take basic guidelines and run with them, adding new wrinkles and discarding burdensome ones. As the phrase in 'Ghostbusters' goes, "I've WORKED in the private sector; they expect RESULTS". This teacher would be much more useful if he focused on results, and ditched his insistence on the process. It's not his job to worry about his students potential work success - his job is to teach the subject. The market will ultimately determine who succeeds and who doesn't, and his do-gooding basis of grading on useless factors that HE thinks are important will only hurt his students chances of landing a great opportunity by lowering the GPA of someone who's mastered the subject, but in a manner unacceptable to the teacher. What arrogance!
- M. Simon said...
White men aproximately equal white women in colleges.
The shortage is in the men of color area.
Where are they?


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Thanks for your thoughts Lesley! I started to regret starting this thread! Here I was just wondering what other soul structures incarnate in these types of realities & what their specific abilities/lessons/gifts were & then it seemed to get complicated quick.
I stayed up late & read just about all about Daemon from the message boards & feel I understand what's being said. The soul having a structure/identity doesn't preclude having any number or any infinite possibilty of experience while cruising the universe - it's just a root identity which is part of natural law - form/structure, etc. even at a soul-level. This doesn't mean I can't go to my laya yoga & experience the chakras, their archetypes, etc & be transformed & widened from that experience but it wouldn't change my actual soul-structure. Also there are natural laws with regard to evolution itself - there is the 'avatar' soulstructure (for lack of any other term) this doesn't mean we don't all reach the point in these realities where we are a 'pure' conduit for god/dess, etc. It makes sense to me that there is an inherent soul structure/identity even as we evolve & expand our consciousness.
However, I'd like to understand what you mean by the Daemon precluding soul-structure - I'm confused because JWG says clearly that Daemon
the soulstructure - ? Again, we all experience & are encased, really, in the chakras - I think this is where too linear thinking comes in, the structure is a root identity it doesn't stop any soul from experiences other realities, evolving, etc. I presume a 'bhakti' soul could learn to communicate with plants, etc. (and as JWG says all souls will have to decondition from unnatural laws) & a daemon could develop skills associated with other soul-structures, but the inherent identity is not lost or 'undone' as a poster once asked of JWG. But - maybe I'm not understanding what you mean?
I would add, that I for instance, may be a daemon identity, but I certainly have a body & chakras correlate with the astral energies working with the physical componets of the body - so, I as we all have them operating & I as we all have had plenty of lives to have all sorts of issues - one of which has to do with communicating & all the lovely crap that can go along with that ( I had a fantasy when young that I'd move somewhere where no one knew me & pretend I was a mute just not to have to speak!
) - and my throat chakra is activated on a physiological level & in our good aura pictures there is a deep blue, large circle of light emanating from that chakra.....so, issues there, despite root identity of daemon.
So, I think, in a way we're saying the same thing....? Aside from the fact I don't know what you mean by daemon precludes soul-structure.
I'm enjoying this thread, too! I have some ideas on the other chakras I may post later.....I'd appreciate more of your thoughts Lesley!
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I think it is important to remember that the Soul has not created itself. What we call God/ess is the origin of all things. Thus the origin of all Souls. And each Soul does have it's own unique nature correlating with the seven soul types that correlate to the time/space/gravitational reality of this Solar System: Earth. Thus, the inherent nature of the Soul created by God/ess is not something that can change. It is intrinsic. And, of course, it's also true that any given soul type does and will experience all the other chakras along it's progressive evolutionary journey. Yet it is the intrinsic orientation, as defined by it's unique Soul type, that the Soul will be orientated to the nature of each of the chakras. So just as Lucius is saying over and over, and rightly so, a Daemon Soul is always a Daemon Soul that can not change because all Souls unique nature has been created by God/ess, not itself. Thus, the Daemon Soul, or any other Soul Type, necessarily will experience all the other chakras it's the orientation defined by the Soul's inherent typing that defines the orientation to those other chakras.
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How I wish we were all sitting around a table and talking about this! I wish I could bring you all to my local coffee shop for a long conversation about the chakras.
Rad, thank you so much for this clarification:
Quote from: Rad on Jul 22, 2009, 09:24 AM
any given soul type does and will experience all the other chakras along its progressive evolutionary journey. ...the Daemon Soul, or any other Soul Type, necessarily will experience all the other chakras: it's the orientation defined by the Soul's inherent typing that defines the orientation to those other chakras.
I think I'm finally starting to wrap my busy head around this now.
Lucius, please don't regret starting this thread!
When they take on a life of their own, like this one seems to have done, I think it's always for the better. I hope you continue to post about the chakras -- I love reading your thoughts and words too (each chakra indeed reflects its own "lovely crap," as you so succinctly put it!
), and we definitely have the same view of the Daemon Soul as created by God'dess.
With regard to what I wrote about my belief that the Daemon archetype 'precedes' any chakra overlay, happily Rad came along and used better words to explain what I was trying to say. I've known a Daemon Soul to reflect the Heart chakra archetype -- a very loving, yin-oriented (not to use another label, but just for the sake of description) Soul devoted to nurturing and sustaining balance on and within the Earth...and I've known a Daemon Soul to reflect the solar plexus chakra -- a yang-oriented consciousness focused on actively defending Nature and Earth from ongoing distortion and destruction. Each individual Daemon Soul approached life and responded to personal experiences in these different ways, though beneath those different approaches and responses to life, both were clearly reflecting the Daemon archetype itself: a true identity rooted in Nature Itself.
My own musings on this subject are clearly a work in progress!...by this point I have come to understand this phenomenon in the following way. (Rad, please feel free to correct any of this if you see fit...I am deeply grateful for any guidance.)
First, the Soul identity as created by God (such as Daemon). Thus the basic identity or first cause, in this example, is the Daemon archetype/identity. On top of that Soul identity, comes a chakra 'overlay' -- natural proclivities of the Soul that can be correlated with one of the 7 chakras. (As noted in my example/contrast above.)
On top of THAT, but also rooted within and based upon the natural proclivities of the Soul, is a chosen or appropriate path the Soul can take to know God: bhakti yoga, karma yoga, jnana yoga, et al. I think any Soul can utilize any of the many yogic paths to God, but one path will probably be easier for any Soul depending upon natural characteristics placed within that Soul by God'dess at the moment of Creation.
I want to thank everyone for letting me think out loud throughout this thread, and for helping me to better understand this phenomenon. If you're ever all in northern California at the same time, coffee is on me!
Love and blessings to everyone,
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Hi Lesley,
Perfect way to understand it Lesley ......... yeah.
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I was just looking at the eclipse chart from yesterday - wow....right on my natal Saturn & the Jup/chiron retro in AQ I have natally at 24 Aries...so, sextile that & throwing Neptune in & throwing that into squaring my nodes & opposing my venus....anyway - the whole post on the chakras seems to have done something deep within me that is, of course, perfectly attuned synchronistically with the stars & I wanted to thank you all for your insights & pushing me over the edge in a positive way!
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Lucius, I'm right there with you...this thread has helped me in so many ways.
Rad, thank you very much for your kind feedback, and for guiding us along the way!
God'dess bless,
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Hi Everyone,
just wanted to say, this is a fantastic thread, thanks for everyone contributing! Thanks Rad for the clarity!
P.S. I won't be around internet for a while (going on a holiday, yeepie!!
Blessings to everyone,
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Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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4 to 6 quarts of motor oil, (check your owner's manual for the proper SAE viscosity, API performance and quantity required for your car�s engine.)
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Your owner's manual for your vehicle will recommend a weight and type of oil to be used under normal driving conditions as well as the number of miles that you should drive your vehicle before changing your oil, (drain interval). Oil types include Conventional or Synthetic or High Mileage oil for cars with more the 75,000 miles. However, if you drive mostly under severe conditions such as extreme temperatures, frequent short trips, stop and go traffic or towing and hauling, the extra strain on your engine will necessitate more frequent changes.
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Not a Cowboy Quilt
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I know your Jubilee will all come together and be wonderful. I could look at that center all day!ReplyDelete
It is lovely Lori and well worth the effort to continue and finish before the next Jubilee!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 6:20 AM
Hey Lori, I love the set!!!! and I know you can fill up those corners with all kinda cool stuff! Brova, for jumping in with both feet, cheers, CWReplyDelete
I like it - especially the letters! Keep goin'!ReplyDelete
I'd say you ARE a designer! Looks wonderful!ReplyDelete
It looks fabulous! I love the green all around the medallion and that saw tooth border looks so catchy! I agree with Maureen, You ARE a designer.
Looking good Lori :-) love the spiky border and setting the centre block in green and yellow. Just remember there are no mistakes only design features!ReplyDelete
Wow! Lori , this is going to be so stunning when you finish.ReplyDelete
I'm sure you will finish it soon.
I agree...this quilt is going to be STUNNING!! Love what you are doing with the corners...and the date is going to add a lot of charm to it too!And the spiky border just ties it all up like ribbon on a package!!ReplyDelete
I think your progress looks good. Those appliqued corners will be wonderful. You gotta use the spikey border - I love it :0)ReplyDelete
it's interesting, once you start getting your hands back on a project and moving things around on the design wall it begins to communicate with you and parts of the design just seem to find their place . . . it's coming together beautifully~!ReplyDelete
it's good to see it again and i too love the bold signature you have planned.
wishing you some sunshine for your weekend.
Beautiful! Fun to see your progress.ReplyDelete
Lori -- I love it !! Thanks so much for sharing -- funny thing is I had a similar idea for a UFO of mine -- my first ever needle turn applique that is waiting for some attention... Appreciate your feedback if you have a minute to look !ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see the progress on your Jubilee Quilt !
OH I just love it, love those letters and that basket and leaves/flowers perfectReplyDelete
hahaha YOU are a designer, your doing such a great job
keep going!
This looks so good, Lori. And good for you for wanting to finish it up. I just love those colors!!ReplyDelete
Wow! Fantastic! Love those colors! Love the design! I just love it!ReplyDelete
Love the colors, such a striking quilt. I know you didn't ask for suggestions, but what if you shortened the stems on the flowers in the corner and added two more fern fronds. I'd also suggest that you stick with an odd number of things in the vase. Just for balance. Good luck. I know how frustrating it can be to get stuck. And, enjoy the cowboy quilts. I bought another cowboy fabric this weekend in a grab bag and thought of you. LaneReplyDelete
Lori this looks great!! Love your lettering too. I'm so glad you are doing your own thing. It will be so much more special to you !ReplyDelete
It is beautiful and I think the spiky border looks great out there. I love what you are doing in the corner. Yes, it will benefit from some additions, but what you have there is lovely!ReplyDelete
I think that is a great style for the lettering, wherever you end up putting it.
You only have to please yourself with this quilt, but I will say it sure looks pleasing to me, too!
Its looking great. I think sometimes the fear of things not turning out perfect makes me procrastinate in the design process. I am itching to have the time to just work on something with no real plan and just let the quilt take me where it wants to go. I love both of your borders and can't wait to see where this quilt takes you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 10:03 AM
I think it is going to be absolutely beautifufl when you are done. Just keep doing what pleases your eye. You can't go wrong.ReplyDelete
Red and Green quilts were show quilts originally. Don't be afraid, the quilt will tell you what it wants, just listen to your heart and intuition. That is how my quilts and other projects speak to me.
It's awesome and you ARE a designer, no question about it.ReplyDelete
I love how you've set it on point---and the corner applique is great! Looking GOOD, Lori!ReplyDelete
I agree with everyone ahead of me who assured you that you indeed ARE a designer. You'll be putting the parts together just as you want them, at your pace, removing and adding, moving and deleting. It's going to be a fun design process for you, and we'll enjoy watching over your shoulder.ReplyDelete
I know you say you are not a designer but you have nailed this one, Lori. The green triangles surrounding the center is what it needed. Gives the piece a vibrant look. The appliques pick up the colors from the center. It will be a very good quilt.ReplyDelete
It is looking good! Look forward to seeing what comes next.ReplyDelete
As I scrolled down each photo got better and better. Love what you are doing.ReplyDelete
The jubilee quilt is looking impressive already. The colours you're using are so vibrant, love it!ReplyDelete
I love everything about it so far! I'm a little late on my jubilee, but you inspire me to make one. Maybe I could make a Jubilee Plus!ReplyDelete
I love it Lori!! Love the colours, love the basket and flower and leaves, love it all!! Great work!!ReplyDelete
WOW!! It says Jubilee to me. I think the more you add to it--the more fun this design is going to be. The green setting triangles just jump out and grab the eye. The middle is just such a neat idea!! The fronds will add a great texture to the design. If it gets too be too wonky--it will be even better!!ReplyDelete
I think you are doing a fantastic job of designing. Carry on!!!!ReplyDelete
You have such good instincts - this is going to be perfect!! Don't second guess yourself!ReplyDelete
I think you're being to hard on yourself. I'm loving your flower pot corners, it's all looking good to me. I hope you'll continue with it. Maybe put it away for a week and then get it back out and get a fresh look. As I said, I really like it!ReplyDelete
I just know this will turn out to be a stunner. It's looking great already.ReplyDelete
looling great and I love the flowers for the corenr!...it will be so beautifulReplyDelete
Don't get too overwhelmed, the quilt will grow at its own pace, so far it's looking wonderful!!! Here Downunder there is a song where in the chorus it says "From little things, big things grow...",ReplyDelete
This is looking great Lori! I do like that spikey border - dogged determination would get more done!! (being cheeky I know)ReplyDelete
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HOFFMAN ESTATES – Jordan Hooper scored 24 points to lead No. 21 Nebraska to a 76-61 victory over Iowa in the Big Ten women's basketball tournament quarterfinals Friday.
Theairra Taylor scored 22 points to lead Iowa (20-12), and Johnsburg High School graduate Melissa Dixon scored 18 points for the Hawkeyes.
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In the Big Ten semifinals, Nebraska will face the winner of Friday's second quarterfinal game between Purdue and Wisconsin.
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NEW YORK — The NFL says Sunday night's officiating crew should have stopped play and eliminated confusion about the down and distance at the end of the Giants' 24-17 victory at Washington.
With New York leading by 7 points just after the two-minute warning, a catch by the Redskins' Pierre Garcon on second-and-5 was spotted short of a first down at the Washington 45. Referee Jeff Triplette signaled third down. But the head linesman, with the Redskins in a hurry-up offense, incorrectly motioned for the crew to advance the chains, which caused the down boxes to read first down.
"In this situation where there is obvious confusion as to the status of the down, that play should have been stopped prior to third down and the correct down communicated to both clubs," league officiating director Dean Blandino said Monday in a statement. "This should have occurred regardless of the fact that Washington had no timeouts and it was inside two minutes."
Only the referee can rule and signal a first down. The official nearest to the down markers and chain crew, the head linesman, is required to wait for that first-down signal from the referee before moving the chains. That did not happen at FedEx Field.
After Washington's incomplete pass on the next play — which many Redskins believed was first down — the chains were moved back and the down boxes correctly reset to fourth down.
Blandino said instant replay review was not used on Garcon's catch "because the replay official determined that the ball … was correctly spotted short of the line to gain for a first down."
Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III said the confusion affected the play calling.
"The chain said first down, and then when we came back, we think it's second-and-10, and they're yelling out it's fourth down," Griffin said. "No explanation. No measurement. Didn't stop the clock to allow the chains to move back. And we just had to go ahead and call the play."
Griffin did complete a 6-yard pass to Garcon on fourth-and-1, but safety Will Hill stripped the ball. The Giants then ran out the clock.
"I told him I wanted a measurement, because I knew it was close," coach Mike Shanahan said, not specifying which official he was referring to. "It was inches. And he said, 'No, it's a first down.' And he moved the chains. And then after I saw it was fourth down, I asked him, 'You already told me it was first down.' He didn't say anything. So that was quite disappointing."
Speaking to a pool reporter Sunday night, Triplette said: "We signaled third down on the field. The stakes were moved incorrectly. After that play, we said it was still third down. We had signaled third down prior to the play starting. The stakes just got moved incorrectly."
Triplette defended not stopping play, saying it "would have given an unfair advantage." But Blandino said Monday that was the wrong decision.


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Gifts that stand the test of time
Gifts that stand the test of time
Why should kids get all the toys this time of year? Give an adult a plaything like he or she grew up with and you give that grown-up the gift of tangible nostalgia.
"Many folks keep a Slinky on their desk just to pick up and work in their hands when they're thinking," says Patricia Hogan, curator at the National Museum of Play (home of the National Toy Hall of Fame). "I think adults just like having that touchstone with their childhood."
We're not encouraging grown men to flop on the floor with Hot Wheels cars or women to play dress-up with Barbie dolls, unless maybe there's a son or daughter involved. But we do like a sampling of ageless toys nestled in a bookshelf or cubicle, a whimsical reminder of the joy they first brought so many years ago.
Since the classics never go out of style, we scanned the Toy Hall of Fame inductees for some that can bring joy to adults as well as children.
Hot Wheels
Hot Wheels first rolled out in 1968 like a shrunken custom car show, rocking metallic Spectraflame gumdrop colors and high-speed wheels to blaze across the kitchen linoleum. More than 4 billion cars have been made, with more than 800 models and 11,000 variations.
The grown-up gift: Since the closest most of us will get to owning a Porsche 911 GT2 is at 1:64 scale, find your adult auto buff a Hot Wheels replica of his dream car. If he's a serious Hot Wheels collector, Hogan suggests one of the rare Redline cars, which were made between 1968 and 1977 and named for the red ring on the wheel. Look for these online and at garage sales.
And you thought dollhouses were just for little girls. Hogan says the dollhouse dates to 1500s in Europe as a display wealthy adults used to showcase pricey miniatures of household furnishings. The Toy Hall of Fame says these so-called "baby houses" didn't become prevalent in kids' rooms until the 17th and 18th centuries. Dollhouses today skew to all ages and incomes.
The grown-up gift: "Dollhouses take up a lot of real estate," Hogan says without a trace of irony. That's why she suggests you first give a few ornate furnishings, like a mini-mushroom couch or Shaker furniture. If your intended really wants a tiny roof over them, she'll let you know.
Created by Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler, Barbie (aka Barbara Millicent Roberts) first strutted her impossibly long legs in a black-and-white striped swimsuit in 1959. She's since worked at more than 125 careers. Other numbers of note: 50 nationalities and more than 1 billion fashions for Barbie and her friends.
The grown-up gift: Whether you go short shorts or haute couture, new or vintage, you're sure to find a Barbie that meets your grown-up girl's personality or personal interests. Our artsy suggestion: The Museum Collection Barbie doll inspired by Leonardo da Vinci ($34.95), a plastic masterpiece that favors the Mona Lisa right down to her famous smile.
G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe first fired up the imaginations of little boys in 1964 as a new kind of toy soldier - a nearly foot tall action figure (don't you dare call him a "doll") with articulation and accessories for heightened play combat. In the 1980s, "America's movable fighting man" shrank to a 3 3/4-inch "real American hero" and recruited a new generation of fans. G.I. Joes tall and small still command the attention of kids young and old.
The grown-up gift: In the beginning, four figures were released representing the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, Hogan notes. An original or replica of such a figure from the appropriate military branch makes a great gift for the veteran in your life, she says. For your child of the '80s, an original or replica of those smaller Joes makes a great stocking stuffer. When in doubt, go with the ninja commando Snake Eyes.
The iconic game of real estate and funny money struck pay dirt with its introduction in 1935, thanks to the efforts of game designer Charles Darrow. From the Great Depression to the Great Recession, more than 275 million Monopoly games have sold worldwide.
The grown-up gift: Monopoly comes in myriad versions that reflect what's now as well as what was then. Grab a copy that matches your intended's favorite movie, TV show, etc. Hogan recommends the Monopoly Here & Now U.S. edition (available online, prices vary), a modern version of the original with updates such as Times Square in place of Boardwalk. Other options: Monopoly Electronic Banking ($24.99) and the Library Monopoly Vintage Book Game ($20.89 at Target).
Crayola crayons
Crayola crayons debuted in 1903, courtesy of barn paint maker turned school supply business Binney & Smith. Those first nontoxic wax sticks ran a nickel a box for eight colors: black, blue, brown, green, orange, red, violet and yellow. Now the Crayola spectrum boasts more than 400 colors, with more than 100 billion crayons sold.
The grown-up gift: Hogan says that simple box of eight also makes a great stocking stuffer. Go old school with the Crayola Crayon Nostalgic Tin ($2.99 at CrayolaStore.com), a tin of the original package design with the eight-count crayons inside.
Playing cards
Playing cards have been around for centuries, well before computerized Solitaire and televised Texas Hold 'Em. America first got its playing cards from England, then printed its own after the Revolutionary War. The ubiquitous Bicycle brand dates to 1885 and continues to amuse Go Fish, Poker and other card-game players to this day.
The grown-up gift: "The decorative side of a playing card comes in infinite varieties," Hogan says. "You could almost find a deck to suit anybody on your Christmas list." Again, go with your recipient's tastes. Or go traditional with a twist: Bicycle's ornate Dragon Back cards ($2.99 at Target) have standard Bicycle card faces yet would look right at home in a Middle Earth casino.


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How to Import a Vehicle into Canada
For all those interested in bringing your dream car into the Great White North, this is for you. I'm still in the process, but I'm nearing the final steps, so I thought I'd share what I learned here with everyone else. What follows is a walkthrough on all the steps you need to take to get your baby back home.
Numbers You'll Need:
Registrar of Imported Vehicles (RIV)
Phone: 1-888-848-8240
Fax: 416-626-0366
Mon-Fri 7:00am - 12:00am EST
Sat-Sun 7:00am - 5:00pm EST
Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA)
Phone: 1-800-461-9999
Outside Canada: (506) 636-5064
Transport Canada
Phone: 1-800-333-0371
Outside Canada: (613) 998-8616/2524
Fax: (613) 998-4831
Lynden Border Crossing (The one I chose to go through, Choose the one closest to you)
Phone: (360) 354-2183
Fax: (360) 354-2706
BMW Canada
Phone: 1-800-567-2691
Fax: 905-428-5410
8:30am - 8:00pm EST
Assuming you've found the car you like, have gotten someone in the area to check it out, and, if you're super organized, gotten a local mechanic to inspect it, you're ready to begin the import process. This actually took a lot longer than I expected, and it's full of red-tape and fees.
What to Do Before You Do Anything:
Make sure the car is legally allowed into Canada. Several cars, for various reasons, are banned flat out. Don't make the mistake of buying a car not able to cross the border. There's a list of acceptable vehicles here:
The 15 Year Rule:
If the car is more than 15 years old, determined from the month and year of the build date (found on a sticker on the d. side door paneling), it is exempt from all RIV regulations. 6 months more on my car and I wouldn't have to deal with any of this, but it's important to note, because it makes importing older cars a lot easier. (See post later in thread for more details)
For the sake of convenience, let's assume you love the car, everything checks out, and you're ready to buy it. I took the path of flying down, then driving it back up, so I'll go from there.
Documents Needed:
You'll need your seller to provide you with the following documents to keep on hand:
1. The Vehicle Title (You can do with just a faxed copy before the actual transfer of title takes place)
2. A Bill of purchase. Just a piece of paper stating "I, Seller, am selling this Vehicle to X for $XXX on the date of X. The VIN # is XXX". Have both parties sign the bottom with printed names underneath. *In my case, this was fine to go through the border with, but when I went to ICBC recently, they required that I fill out their own Bill of Sale to be signed by myself and the seller. Check with your local insurance agency regarding what they will accept.
3. A copy of the registration. More on this later.
Once you have these documents, you'll need to fax them to whatever border crossing you're passing through a full 72 hours in advance. The clock starts the next morning after you fax them, and they don't count Saturdays and Sundays. So assuming you send them in Monday, the clock starts Tuesday and the earliest you can pass through that crossing is Friday. Also note that At some locations, NO IMPORTING IS ALLOWED ON THE WEEKENDS! This almost ruined my trip, so keep that in mind.
After you fax the documents in, get your plane ticket/transportation/travel papers in order. If you're planning on going on a one way flight, or driving down, make sure you're holding on to that list of documents, as they'll want proof when they question you. If you're shipping it through an auto transporter, now is the time to book it.
An aside on Auto Transporters:
Many of the companies I called wouldn't actually cross the border themselves, so you may end up having it shipped to the edge of the country, and having to go down and do the final crossing yourself. Also, you may find it's more cost-efficient if you do the driving. I went from SoCal to Washington, and I received quotes averaging about $1200 USD. My plane ticket was $300 last minute, and gas was only about $100. It was a 3 day trip, so accommodations didn't add up to much either. You also get the thrill of learning about your car over a cross-country trip. If however you find yourself unable to import, this is a good alternative. I believe InterCity Transport (or something like that) is a board sponsor and was previously willing to offer bfc members deals on shipping depending on where you live. Shop around, but know that the cheapest isn't always the best. Get their guarantee on when your car will arrive in writing, and MAKE SURE THEY HAVE FULL INSURANCE! Just type in "Auto Transport Nightmare" into google and see what you get. Don't let this happen to you.
If you chose to drive it back up yourself, you're going to need insurance. Go into your local insurance broker and ask for a "Binder of Insurance". This covers you so long as you go from your origin to your destination via the most direct route. There's some wiggle room, but once you get closer to home you can't blast around the canyons the rest of the day. You'll need to provide the VIN and plate # of the car when you're getting insured. This BoI isn't enough on it's own though. It's only valid if it's riding on a registered vehicle with plates. So if the seller has registration on the car, you'll be driving on his or her plates and registration until you reach your destination. When you meet with the seller, you'll need to get him to sign a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability form at the DMV. This means that if you crash, it's not going on the seller's insurance.
If the car has no registration or plates, you'll need to go to the nearest DMV and get some. Registration is easy - it comes in the form of a One Trip Permit which lets you leave the country without having to go through emissions testing or any of the other hoops, and it's much cheaper than full registration. You can apply for temporary plates in the same way. Seeing as this is the DMV, be prepared for a long wait. It's best to set half a day to this.
All the insurance agencies I talked to covered their asses saying I had to call all the DoTs for states I was traveling through to make sure the insurance was valid. After a million infuriating automated messaging systems and left messages, the short answer is yes, it's valid.
So you've got the car, faxed the border documents, gotten your insurance, and now you're ready to cross the border.
At the US Border:
Step into the office and produce the original title, bill of sale, and registration. They'll inspect the car and check the VIN, then stamp your registration, and you're off to home turf.
At the Canadian Border:
Produce the same documents again, along with your Driver's license, and they'll hand you Form 1. This is really important, so don't lose it. They'll charge you $195 for giving you this form, 7% of the car's value for GST, and 6% for duty. You'll pay provincial sales tax when you get insurance (6% in BC). To give you an idea of perspective, I paid $6600 USD for my car, and at the border, paid $972. All these funds are non-refundable. Once you cross the border, you now have 45 days to get it inspected and registered, otherwise it's sent back to whence it came. And you're out all those border fees. So don't do this. It's unlikely though, because they give you an automatic 10 day extension, and if you call a week or two before deadline, you can get more time. So if you haven't gotten it inspected in 2 months, get off your ass you lazy bastard.
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Biologist focuses on transforming students into scientists
A. Sue Weisler
Dina Newman is on a new path.
The assistant professor of biology is creating a name for herself in the nascent field of biology education research. The discipline is a departure from the bench work she conducted at the University of Chicago that launched her early career as a geneticist and led her to RIT in 2003. Her interests have expanded in the last five years from the molecular level to include the unexplored edges—the cognitive transformation—of how students become scientists.
Newman's most recent paper, "Students Fail to Transform Knowledge of Chromosome Structure to Topics Pertaining to Cell Division," published in the winter 2012 issue of CBE Life Science Education, explores the topic with co-authors Christina Catavero, a third-year student from Poughquag, N.Y., majoring in biotechnology in the College of Science and biomedical sciences in the College of Health Sciences and Technology, and Kate Wright, assistant professor of biology at RIT.
Their study investigates the tendency among biology majors to misapply content knowledge to essential concepts and interrelationships regarding chromosomes and cell division. They found that students who think about biological processes in a vacuum instead of as part of a larger system create roadblocks to deeper understanding.
"Textbooks and typical lectures on cell division only show chromosomes as sticks or blobs," says Newman, a member of RIT's Science and Mathematics Education Research Collaborative. "So that's how students think of them. They don't think about what's going on, on the molecular level, even though they know."
Students need help making connections that experts intuitively grasp, Newman notes. She has since adjusted her own lectures to bring together the topics of DNA and cell division.
"If you understand the structure, you understand the function and you understand how it works," Newman says. "Things that are presented as a magical process are driven by rules that they already know about."
Newman originally joined RIT to conduct genetic testing for a study led by her co-authors, D. Robert Frisina Sr., founding director of NTID, and D. Robert Frisina Jr. The Frisinas, now at University of South Florida in Tampa, recruited subjects in Rochester and tested their hearing; Newman isolated and analyzed the subjects' DNA to determine genotypes.
Co-author Laurel Fisher at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles provided the statistical analysis for the National Institutes of Health study. The team's investigation confirmed and extended previous research tying age-related hearing loss to the GRM7 gene and a protein it produces in the inner ear.
"We took the same gene and were able to confirm the finding in a different way as well as show that men and women have different outcomes depending on their genotype," Newman says.
This spring, Newman will teach human genetics to upper-level students in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences.
"The scale of DNA is so vast and so tiny," Newman says. "It's mind boggling in both directions. We're not used to those kinds of scales."
Conveying complex information in ways that lead her students to new cognitive levels is fundamentally gratifying for Newman, perhaps even more than the lure of the laboratory. She has found a rich field of research where biology education and genetics intersect.
"Biology education research fits my personality," Newman says. "It's what I wanted to do, whether I knew it or not."


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Roy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Looking for logo to be used on t-shirts and advertising. Simplistic design that is easy to read. Simple yet striking. I would like the text to make a statement.
Love Your Body Diet.com
- I am looking for a logo that really showcases the text LOVE YOUR BODY. I like the way those words look and I want them to stand out.
- LOVE YOUR BODY in a larger type and diet.com smaller.
- A small logo to accompany the text. A simple flower may work well.
- Colors: pinkish red/bright blue/bright green.
- Vector Format.
1. Basic lettering with a simplistic design. The design is for t-shirts and advertising.
2. The more SIMPLE the better.
3. Showcase LOVE YOUR BODY.
4. More feminine design, but not too too femine.
5. Rich distinct colors, but not dark colors.
6. A design that is easy to read.
7. I want the .com included in the business name.
8. Vector format.
1. Busy design.
2. Small lettering.
3. Too much detail.
4. Dark colors.
5. Feminine, but not too feminine.
6. Do not leave out the .com
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Liberty News
Spirit of giving alive at Liberty University
Liberty University students, faculty and staff have been doing their part during this season of giving, responding in a variety of ways to the needs of the community.
For several years, members of the Liberty family have donned the familiar red apron, ringing tiny bells for The Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign outside Walmart on Wards Road in Lynchburg. From 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. every day from Nov. 23-Dec. 24, students and workers from various offices within the university — from athletics to nursing, business, aviation, religion, counseling, Christian/Community Service, and many others — have manned the station.
In recent years, members of the Liberty family have helped raise more than $10,000 for the charity.
Other projects, perhaps less noticeable than the bell-ringers but still meeting significant needs, are happening all across campus.
Sodexo, Liberty's dining services provider, recently had the opportunity to serve a local health care facility. When Sodexo leaders heard that Centra Hospice had set a goal of receiving 300 dozen cookies from area donors this year — a dozen to send to the families of each of its 300 patients — they decided they could take on the entire load.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, five employees spent five hours baking an assortment of sugar cookies in holiday shapes.
"We made it fun. We had an assembly going — we just knocked it out," said Teresa Hawkins, Sodexo executive administrative assistant. "It was very rewarding for everyone. We're already looking at possibilities, reaching out to other charities to see what we can do."
Lori Madden, district manager, said the donation was greatly appreciated.
"The folks at Hospice were so overwhelmed and grateful that more than 300 families will now have cookies in their home for their visiting guests because of (the employees') compassion and commitment," she said. "It's selfless acts such as this that makes Christmas such a special time of year."
The academic offices at the university have participated in meeting the needs of the hungry this season. The dean's offices of each academic program supported the Holiday Spirit Food Drive to benefit the Miller Home for Girls, the Liberty Godparent Home, and The Salvation Army. Donation centers were set up for staff and students to bring in canned food through Dec. 15. Other offices and student residence halls conducted their own food drives across campus this season.
Serving the community in Christian service has always been a priority at Liberty. A recent study reports students provided 648,579 hours of volunteer service to organizations such as the American Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, local churches, humane societies, and The Salvation Army in 2011-2012. Faculty and staff provided an additional 106,350 hours of volunteer labor to charitable organizations.
Liberty requires all sophomores, juniors, and seniors to participate in 20 hours of service each semester through the Christian/Community Service Office. A new program this year, the Community Care Initiative, gives them yet another opportunity to serve their community through short-term projects. On Dec. 1, 15 students participated in a CCI project at Amazement Square Children's Museum in downtown Lynchburg, helping prepare for its Children's Holiday Festival.
Many Liberty students are also meeting critical needs overseas this season. On Dec. 27, two staff members and 14 students are participating in a mission trip to East Asia through Light Ministries, Liberty's short-term missions organization. Read more about that trip here.


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The constantly changing Oklahoma weather can really take its toll on your home. That's why OG&E offers the Weatherization Program to all residential customers who own or lease a single-family, duplex or mobile home and have an income of less than $60,000 a year.
If you fall within these requirements, then you could be eligible for the FREE OG&E Weatherization Program. This program can help improve your comfort, reduce energy costs, and safeguard your residence. Some home improvements may include:
Weatherization services are even available to rental properties if an eligible customer lives in the home and has approval from the property owner.
For eligibility and participation, contact Customer Service Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 405-272-9741 (Oklahoma City) or 800-272-9741 (all other areas).
Learn more about the OG&E Weatherization Program and how it can help you.
The OG&E Weatherization Program provides free home energy efficiency upgrades to current OG&E residential customers residing in Arkansas, whose homes were built prior to 2009. Making your home more energy efficient will help you lower electric bills. Weatherization services may include:
Taking advantage of this program can help you manage your energy costs and improve the comfort of your home.To see if you qualify or to enroll, contact us at 800-272-9741.
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