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    Girls at Robinson High School wear drapes for senior photos. But Nikki Youngblood wanted to wear a tie like the boys do.

    By MELANIE AVE, Times Staff Writer
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    published January 25, 2002

    TAMPA -- Since she was 8 years old, Nikki Youngblood wanted to dress like a boy.

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    Nikki Youngblood, who prefers jeans to dresses and skirts, refused to wear a black drape for her senior picture.
    As a child, she played with G.I. Joes and Ninja Turtles and preferred jeans and loose shirts to dresses and skirts. By the time she was 17, she was wearing tuxedoes to school dances and refusing feminine clothes.

    "It's just not me," she said.

    So last spring, when it came time to sit for her Robinson High senior yearbook photos at Bryn-Alan Studios, Nikki and her mother decided the best attire for her would be a black suit jacket, white dress shirt and tie.

    But her wardrobe choice didn't jive with the school. They were told only male students could wear shirts and ties. Female students would be photographed in a scoop-necked, black velvet drape.

    To Nikki, it was "like asking a boy to go put on a dress. To my friends, it would have been the biggest joke in the world."

    The flurry that followed raised questions of freedom of expression versus following the rules. Inevitably, there were lawyers. In the end, when the Robinson High Excalibur yearbook comes out this spring, Nikki's senior picture won't be in it.

    Nikki, a lesbian who wears her dark brown hair cut short and a silver ring in her upper right ear, said it boils down to one thing.

    "It's pure discrimination," said the teenager, who graduated from Robinson early, in December, and hopes to become a clinical psychologist.

    School attorney Crosby Few had a different take: "The administration did not feel the yearbook was the place you make those kinds of statements. The next year, you might have 10 boys dressing as girls and vice versa."

    That day at the studio, Nikki's mother said, the staff was pushing for her daughter to wear the drape.

    "She became very embarrassed," Sonia Youngblood said. "It took everything I had not to cry."

    Ms. Youngblood, a Clearwater post office employee, said the studio told Nikki they would photograph her in the shirt and tie, but only if the school said okay.

    "It's not a problem with us," said Eddie Ocasio, area director for Bryn-Alan. "That's between her and the school. All we do is provide the service to the school."

    Ms. Youngblood called the assistant principal at Robinson and explained the situation. The answer was, if her daughter wanted to appear alongside her 280 classmates, she must wear the drape.

    "Apparently there is no provision or exception for a student that doesn't fit the mold," her mother said.

    Principal Kevin McCarthy referred questions to a school spokesman Thursday.

    Few said that while the school remained steadfast about Nikki's senior picture, they agreed to allow a photograph of her in the activity section of the yearbook, wearing her clothing of choice.

    The family is considering a lawsuit, but wonders if it's a moot point since the deadline for yearbook production has passed.

    In correspondence with the school attorney, the Youngbloods' attorney, Karen Doering of Equality Florida, alleges sex discrimination based on gender stereotypes and free expression violations.

    Doering wrote that it comes down to a young girl who wanted to appear as herself in her senior yearbook "rather than conforming to her school administrators' stereotyped notions of how girls should dress.

    "The shirt and tie . . . is the attire that is consistent with Nikki's gender identity and expression."

    Nikki said she is puzzled about why it was such a big deal, since she was only asking to wear the same clothes as the boys in her class, not something outrageous.

    "I told Mom when we walked out (of the studio), "You should have lied and told them my name was Nicholas,"' said the stocky 5-foot-8 teen. "They would never have known the difference."

    Jennifer Middleton, attorney with New York's Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, called the school's decision outrageous. "That gets into a level of discrimination of who that student is," said Middleton, whose organization represents the rights of gays, lesbians and transgender people. "Everybody wants to be in the high school yearbook and you want to look like who you were in your high school years."

    Ms. Youngblood had family pictures taken of her daughter dressed in a black tuxedo, tie and Burgundy vest, at Olan Mills studio.

    Nikki said she did not buy a yearbook and doubts that it will have her name in it. She had wanted to have the yearbook to look back at years from now, when she gets together with old friends to reminisce.

    "I can't do that now," she said.

    -- Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Melanie Ave can be reached at (813) 226-3400 or

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Tiny Smart car might be next big thing

A European two-seater's surprising ride and roominess belie its lilliputian appearance.

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Published October 25, 2007

Area drivers who paid a $99 reservation fee to buy a Smart Fortwo got a chance Wednesday to test-drive one of the tiny vehicles, which looked like something out of a Pixar movie.
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You're one of the first drivers to slide behind the wheel of a head-turning European two-seater. It's red, of course. And if you're really lucky, you have an attractive passenger in the other seat.

It all came true for me Wednesday - with one tiny difference. Tiny, as in smaller than a sports car. Tiny, as in the much-anticipated Smart Fortwo, the looks-like-it-was-designed-by-Pixar car that's been zipping around European cities since 1998.

Now it has arrived in America, the land of the SUV, where it goes on sale early next year.

On Wednesday, Lokey Motor Co. in Clearwater was the latest stop on the 50-city Street Smart road show, where those who have put down a $99 reservation on a Smart could test-drive one (with a Smart USA team member riding shotgun).

So what's it like driving an 8.8-foot-long car that can fit into an average parking space twice over? Surprisingly, big.

"That's far and away the No. 1 comment," says Nick Fanelli, whose crew is one of four teams that have been taking the car on a national tour since June.

"It's just about the same as a (Mercedes) E-Class," Fanelli says, "and was designed around a person who is 6-5."

It shows. At a fraction taller than 6 feet, I had plenty of head room. The Smart is 5.1 feet wide and 5.1 feet tall. There is enough leg room that I had to slide the seat forward to comfortably reach the pedals. The interior gives off the feel of a larger car. The roomy feel also calms some safety concerns in a car where you might be dwarfed by traffic.

The cockpit, to be kind, is minimalist. Still, the gauges and controls are better-looking than many economy cars.

So how does it drive?

After a short spin on rainy U.S. 19 and around a nearby neighborhood, I found it to be spry for a car with a 1.0-liter, three-cylinder engine that makes a blushingly modest 71 horsepower. Acceleration isn't immediate, which makes for a careful merger onto U.S. 19, but the Smart gets up to speed well enough for city driving, which it was designed to do. (Top speed is billed at 90, which seems optimistic.) Even without power steering, the car is nimble.

The Smart's five-speed gearbox can be operated in manual mode with steering-wheel paddle shifters or automatic. The automatic mode (you switch by pressing a button on the shift column) provided the one annoyance: jerky gear changes. Fanelli says Smart is fine-tuning the transmission for the 2008 models. The ones provided for testing were European versions with mph stickers pasted over the kilometer-reading speedo. Manual mode provides for a smoother ride.

So who are the likely buyers?

Several of those who lined up in a drizzle Wednesday said their interest was more practical than environmental. "Yeah, the green in my pocket," cracked Christie Drakeley, who splits time between Seattle and St. Petersburg.

The prospective buyers were mostly older, looking for a second car. Many had researched the car on the Internet before plunking down their $99. None seemed to have safety concerns.

Some drivers even gave the Smart style points.

Everett Rothschild, who drove over from San Antonio, Fla., in his new Prius, says he plans on buying a Smart for weekend driving. "That's vanilla," he said, pointing to the Prius. "I want some spumoni."

Smart stuff

Cars: Go on sale early next year as a coupe and cabrio (convertible) with three models expected to range from slightly less than $12,000 to slightly less than $17,000.

Estimated fuel efficiency: 40 miles per gallon.

Safety: A steel cell surrounds the cockpit, which has four air bags. The car also has electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes and reinforced doors.

Events: The road show travels to The Pier in St. Petersburg today (11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.) before moving to Tampa's Hyde Park Village on Saturday and Sunday ( 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.).

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David Bernstein: We bring forward a recommendation of the job or outlet to be used by our client – at which point in the year and for which positions [they should use certain outlets]. To get to that, we study the markets they are recruiting in. We look at recentness, frequency, response rates, and the level of the position and the way they describe the position in a posting title against the function the job encompasses. Then we look at the response patterns of candidates to help our customers understand which boards produce the most candidate flow or which boards are most appealing to our customers.

SM: The kind of data you are describing doesn’t look like big data to me.

DB: We receive more than a million job performance records a day through our system, on a global scale. We help customers know which the kinds of positions and the right kind of board set are on the market. Our initial offering to our customers is insight into how all of that data comes together in order to give a picture of the right set of forecast and the measurement of their effectiveness through their recruitment cycle.

SM: So, what you are saying is that [working with] these one million job records a day helps you develop certain heuristics within the system, and then you are basically running the new jobs, queries, or functions that your clients have to execute. You can then run that again through heuristics and model it.

DB: Correct. I was referring to the recentness frequency and response rate. Those million records a day are within the category of our job performance responses. We have approximately 200,000 unique candidates a day running through this system, viewing and responding to job postings around the world. That activity creates approximately one million new records a day. In a recent press release we explain how we were studying [the relationship between responses] and the days of the week and how this was changing over time. We analyzed the devices through which candidates responded, either mobile or desktop, and which job functions – health care, retail, or IT jobs, for example – people responded to. We started pulling together these studies to see was going on in those response patterns.  If this same study was going on in big data, it enables us to also provide predictive forecasts for our customers: Which boards or which collection of boards should they start their recruitment on, and how could they allocate their resources most efficiently?

SM: Let’s have a few more of these case studies.

DB: One of our customers is a large financial institution on the East Coast. They  relied on the board they had [because of] a lot of anecdotal evidence and past positive experiences. Over time, the list of job boards and subscriptions they had amassed was approaching 50. What they ended up getting was a portfolio of job boards wherein they had no understanding of which board they should be using at which time or for which positions. In this niche we often call it “post and pray” or “post and spray,” but it is an ineffective sourcing strategy where you are overspending. You do what you think is the right thing to do, which is try to create the best candidate flow so you can get more interviews going. It is an attempt to stay on top of things and meet the hiring demands of the company. But in the end it is a very ineffective sourcing plan. They ended up having to go back to a year-to-year request because the previous year’s budget is what they base next year’s budget request on. They ended up having a top-heavy budget request that didn’t ultimately satisfy the hiring cycle.

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NEW MILFORD - Prominent developer Tom Pilla said he favors construction of more affordable housing in town, but he calls a Zoning Commission strategy to pay for it an ill-advised attempt at "social engineering.''

Pilla and other builders are disturbed over a zoning regulation passed last week that imposes a $1 per square foot fee on anyone who constructs residential units of more than 1,000 square feet. The money will be placed into a fund administered by the non-profit New Milford Housing Partnership .

Though no builders or developers attended the public hearing on the proposed regulation last week, several have said they want the town to revisit the issue. They have 15 days from this Friday to formally appeal.

"First of all, this is a form of social engineering,'' Pilla said. "I'm an advocate for affordable housing, but it's best left to the private sector not the public sector.''

Connecticut's affordable housing law has been controversial since it was adopted in 1989. Builders, officials and residents in some middle-class and affluent towns have balked at the state goal of making 10 percent of the housing stock affordable. The definition of "affordable" changes from town to town, depending on housing prices and incomes.

New Milford, which has about 4 percent affordable housing, is one of the first communities in the state to set up a system to collect money for affordable housing.

The architect of the new regulation is Brooks Temple , who will conclude his 19-year tenure on the Zoning Commission this month. He is chairman of the New Milford Housing Partnership, which is currently behind a plan for 40 units of affordable family complex on Fort Hill Road.

Temple predicted the fee will generate $300,000 to $400,000 annually that could be used as seed money toward some affordable housing projects.

In addition, the funds will also be used to administer the affordable housing laws for any such housing that is built. Under state guidelines, officials must make sure residents who want to move into the units meet income guidelines.

But Kim Danzinger of Newtown, who is developing the Farmstead Acres subdivision in New Milford, questions whether the housing fund would be managed so the money is actually used for its intended purpose. He said the commission could have created a special zoning to encourage affordable housing rather than levy a "tax'' that will make residential housing construction more expensive.

Pilla agreed, saying that the commission would have been better off providing incentives to encourage construction of affordable housing instead of setting a fee structure that seems punitive.

"If it's affordable housing they want, affordable housing they'll get,'' Pilla said. "Their hearts are in the right spot. The way they're trying to produce it is wrong.''

Zoning Commission Chairman George Doring said he stands behind the new regulation. He said the town is "not even treading water'' in its percentage of affordable housing units.

As for the developers' argument they were unaware of the proposal, Doring said there were advance notices in newspapers and elsewhere. Zoning Enforcement Officer Kathy Castagnetta mailed a copy of the proposed regulation to the state Homebuilders Association as a courtesy.

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Rupert Murdoch’s decision to split the publishing and entertainment arms of News Corporation into separate companies raises many questions.

Theoretically, it means potential synergies between the newspapers and the likes of Sky News and Fox News are much less likely to happen in future. Tom Mockridge, the boss of the UK newspaper business News International, occupies an interesting position as he is also deputy chairman of BSkyB, which is part of the bigger, more profitable entertainment arm. Will he be able to keep the roles in both companies? Given his experience in European pay-TV, particularly his eight-year spell running Sky Italia, the entertainment arm would miss him if he stayed in publishing.

* BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten took time off from interviewing candidates to become director-general to phone the producers of the “Hollow Crown” Shakespeare plays on BBC2 to praise them. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, refused to provide some of the funding for the Shakespeare series, arguing it wouldn’t sell around the globe. It seems safe to assume that Patten will not be impressed by that decision, especially given that the Trust chairman has already demanded that BBCW align itself more closely to the licence-fee operation.

* Virgin Media is hopping mad after the Competition Commission did a U-turn and said BSkyB no longer dominates the premium pay-TV movie market — because of the rise of NetFlix and LoveFilm. Virgin says the CC’s finding is “flawed… irrational, unsound and highly speculative” because NetFlix and LoveFilm only recently entered the video-on-demand market. The irate reaction of Virgin is not surprising because the CC had previously ruled that the wholesale price that BSkyB charged for movie channels was too high. Now the CC thinks there is enough competition and choice for consumers. Virgin is livid with the CC’s two-year inquiry which is due to end in August.

* Free wi-fi on Tube platforms has got off to a decent start, with 100,000 passengers getting access to about one million emails, tweets, Facebook postings and so on in the first four weeks, according to Transport for London. The Tube’s wi-fi provider, Virgin Media, has signed up Renault and eBay as debut advertisers, with a web page appearing on the opening screen when you log on. Virgin commercial director Mark Brandon says “location-based targeting will happen in the not-too-distant future”. An opportunity or a threat, depending on your point of view.

* Independent TV firms must look overseas for growth: the annual Pact indie sector survey shows that some 480 firms have revenue of £2.4 billion, up 2.3%. But that masks a big rise in international revenues, which jumped 31% to represent one-third of total turnover, and a drop in “domestic” spending by UK broadcasters. Pact’s Debbie Manners says the BBC appears to be easing back on cuts. However, ITV has allocated just 19% of its spending on new commissions to indies, suggesting it prefers in-house producers ITV Studios.

* Search is still one of the big growth areas of digital marketing and for proof look no further than Chime Communications’ buying a final 20% stake in VCCP Search — sister company of the Compare the Market ad agency VCCP. It is being bought for up to £8 million, depending on performance, giving a total potential value of £40 million for the start-up.

* Lord Bell’s new PR firm Bell Pottinger Private, which has just been bought out of Chime, began trading this week. When it was first set up, it was named Backgammon Limited — very appropriate, given that some of the top team like a gamble — but it was felt to be too risqué as a permanent name. BPP is not taking a big gamble because it still does corporate PR for Chime.


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Police have held an emergency meeting following claims supporters of the far-Right are inflaming racial tensions in the East End in the wake of so-called Muslim Patrols.

Former British National Party councillor Paul Golding was filmed apparently confronting Muslims in Whitechapel as part of a vigilante campaign.

Shot by members of his far-Right Britain First organisation on Friday, footage showed "activists" handing out leaflets advertising their so-called Christian Patrols — allegedly in response to the self-titled Muslim Patrol group that previously operated in Tower Hamlets.

Last December, three members of the Muslim group — including 19-year-old white convert Jordan Horner — were jailed for harassing, intimidating and assaulting people in East London while claiming to enforce sharia law.

Golding is the former head of publicity for the BNP and is currently on police bail for allegedly harassing hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

He was part of a 15-strong group in two cars stationed in Brick Lane — the "heart of Muslim East London".

Members approached passers-by, at one point telling a group: "If you want to live here, you abide by our rules."

Later, Britain First members were filmed drinking beer and smoking cigarettes outside the East London Mosque during Friday prayers, apparently to "draw out" Muslim Patrol members.

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On its website, the group states the campaign will be ongoing. Their actions have been widely condemned and the group reported to police, who yesterday held an emergency meeting with community leaders and council officials about the issue.

A spokesman for the East London Mosque said it was "shocked" by the "fringe neo-Nazi" group.

Dilowar Khan, executive director of the mosque and the London Muslim Centre, said: "Efforts to intimidate and marginalise our community have been relentless. However, we take comfort in the support given by our partners in the community... We will not let those who espouse hatred damage our wonderful community relations."

Matthew Collins, spokesman for anti-racism and anti-extremism organisation Hope Not Hate, said: "It is just one set of extremists trying to antagonise another set of extremists. But in fact they harass normal people."

And Bishop of Stepney The Right Reverend Adrian Newman said: "There is no place for vigilante patrols, Christian, Muslim or any other faith."

But Golding, who is standing against BNP leader Nick Griffin in the upcoming European elections, insisted he was acting for the "silent majority".

He said: "If there was no Muslim Patrol there would be no Christian Patrol.

"We are patriotic, we are British and we are upholding the law... We are not a racist organisation."

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Letters to the editor: we must stop cycle deaths in London

The angle the Mayor took on the radio yesterday, talking about cyclist risk-taking in relation to the recent terrible incidents is very unfortunate.  Either he has inside information before it is released to the public or as his own spokeswoman said it is too early to say. It is highly improbable that all the victims were being reckless for their own safety, and highway engineers can and should allow for human error.

Cycle superhighways are designed by people who have not been required to undergo cycle training and do not understand the importance of cyclists positioning themselves where they can best survive mistakes by others.  The paint encourages both cyclists and motorists to believe that cyclists should be alongside the kerb. I avoid the superhighways and would recommend other cyclists do the same.
Martin Porter QC

My friend and colleague Francis Golding was killed last week after a collision in Bloomsbury. A coach was turning left where Vernon Place and Southampton Row meet. Francis, cycling straight ahead, was knocked to the ground and suffered fatal brain damage.
It is high time we rethought the way left-turning vehicles and bikes interact at junctions. In Denmark, Holland or Germany drivers turning (in their case to the right) will wait for cyclists on their near side to pass. In London, drivers believe that as long as their nose is ahead of the bicycle, and they indicate, they have the right to cut across the rider’s path.
We — and I count myself, as a motorist as well as a cyclist — need to re-learn the way we drive. I am encouraged we can do that when I look at improvements in bus driving. My cycle commute follows the route of the 94 bus and the drivers always allow riders to pass on the inside before they pull in to a stop. This is the result of good training. We urgently need a public information programme, or new regulations that will similarly change the habits of all London drivers.
Peter Murray, chairman, NLA: London’s Centre for the Built Environment

Every day I experience near misses as I cycle to work. “Boris bikes” and pricey public transport mean more inexperienced cyclists on London’s streets. Many accidents happen because cyclists aren’t seen. I call for obligatory head and sidelights in bad daylight, no left turns across marked cycle lanes and “early start” cycle filters at all major junctions.
Cllr Chris Naylor, Camden (Lib-Dem)

I cycle on CS2 regularly and agree it is far from perfect. However, the majority of what I see when cycling and driving is cyclists putting themselves at risk. During a 5am car journey to Heathrow yesterday straight across town I counted more than 30 unlit or poorly lit cycles and numerous cyclists jumping red lights.
Cyclists who cycle down the inside of buses and lorries only have themselves to blame. It needs to be made law that all cyclists undertake training and have appropriate kit. They should also have to be insured.
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More than 10,000 visitors attended the expo and the shire’s stand made more than 230 new contacts.

One couple has already moved to Branxholme and this week opened a business.

A further 11 families have accepted an invitation to attend a range of activities designed to showcase the opportunities on offer for new residents to the shire.

A function will be held at the Hamilton Visitor Information Centre tomorrow evening, with representatives from industry, health, education and community groups available to provide more general information.

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Discussion in '2005 - 2009 Specific Tech' started by ufnavy06, Sep 17, 2006.

  1. I'm looking to get a cold air intake system for my 2006 GT. I'm wondering what experiences people have had with them and who they recommend. I'm always hearing K&N but I want to make sure. My car's stock as far as mechanicals are concerned. Also the system does include an air filter because I was debating on that too. Thanks.
  2. There are many choices. I'd like the Demolet Tunable induction system (only $200+ tuner if needed). MM&FF did a test in the latest mag and they found the WMS did best on the track due to it drawing colder air than the other types. Lot's of opinions in this Forum!
  3. Just today I installed the C&L CIA with SCT XCal2 custom Brenspeed tune from

    I could not believe the difference compared to stock. I can't recommend anything else, it's worth every penny.
  4. search the forums there is a lot of information on this site and lots of people that are willing to help. I have the C&L intake with an SCT tune from Lamotta performance. I love it. There are other kits out there, if I didn't have the C&L. I would most likely get the western intake or the JLT. Definitly get the xcal over the predator though.
  5. CAI

    I have the K&N Aircharger. Works well without a tune. No CELs.
  6. Anyone you happen to come across has a different opinion as to what the best CAI is ?? so It all depends on what your particular preferences are..If your more into bling or durability ?? some choose the C&L or the Steeda/FRPP CAI.. if on the other hand you happen to be on a tight budget but still expect good performance and quality ?? then most choose either the JLT true cold air CAI, or the Demolet Tunable Induction and for those who don't want the hassles of re-flashing their computer ?? there's the K&N aircharger, the Granatelli CAI w/recalibrated MAF sensor and others from which to select from..There's quite a variety of CAI systems to select from and their all very good systems but in the end, it all depends on what features are most important to you and once again, what your personal preference happens to be ?? Anyway, hope you find some of this as helpful..:SNSign:
  7. just stay away from the ebay specials and you will be fine. stick to a name brand, like the ones mentioned here already.
  8. I agree with bigcat, WMS here and never looked back.
  9. i have the (k&n airaid)........until my blower arrives. the k&n is a good intake if you do not want to get a check engine lights and a noticable increase in throttle response and maybe a couple extra ponies.
  10. Which C&L did you end up going with? That's what I'm cosidering and I'm going with Brenspeed as well.

  11. I was thinking the K&N simply because I haven't heard anything bad about them and I read it's like a 20 hp boost and I'm not really at a point where I can tune the car yet.... plus I don't wanna mess too much with the mechanicals for warranty reasons.
  12. yeah but they only tested 2 other systems which did not include the JLT system...
  13. I took the opposite route. I figured that a custom tune by itself would be a lot less conspicuous than a cold air intake, particularly given the ease with which I could "undo" it when it came time to take the car in for service or warranty work.
  14. I put a replacement filter in my 06 GT from S&B. They had the best price and it looks just like a K&N for only $31.00. I am very pleased with the performance and the service from S&B.
    I had used K&N filters before in my 04 Dodge Dakota and my 97 GT. The S&B performs just as well.

    I also considered the type of cold air system that fits under the hood. I read that these just suck in the hot air from the engine and do little for performance. They look really cool but their not worth the money.:notnice:
    I'd rather spend my money on a good exhaust system. :nice:

    This is their web address, check them out.
    Phone: 909-947-0015
  15. well if you consider 20+ RWHP "little" for performance...
  16. Well there are several here that might disagree. Several systems out ther ethat easily put out more the 20 ponies. Depending on what you want to pay for hp put most average I would guess between $10-$20 for each extra hp you get. From what I have read you can not get the same hp/cost range from the exhaust although they do sound good. But I think we are talking more about performance than sound.
  17. For the point of argument, I'll bet I'm making as much RWHP as you are with my cheepo S&B filter. :D

    After all I'm pulling colder air from the fender well than you are from under the engine compartment. :nice:
  18. Yes, but you are pulling much less air.
  19. it sure would be nice to know who you were directing that toward .... :shrug:

  20. dont forget that i am using a much bigger Mass Air Meter than the stocker.... :D


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Horror Obscura - by Martin Unsworth

In the mid 1970s, horror cinema was changing. The gritty independents from the USA were making waves that spread across the world. Hammer productions had ground to a halt. Even spreading their wings into Kung Fu territory with the Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires couldn’t save them.

Its stars, who had up to now, had a steady stream of work from the UK film houses had to accept work elsewhere. Across the English Channel to be exact.

In 1974, Peter Cushing made a rare appearance in the Dracula cape in La Grande Trouille (Tender Dracula), a French made horror comedy, with lashings of gore and a few naked ladies to keep you interested. Well it worked for me at least. Cushing plays an ageing horror star who is wanting to change direction in his career. Rather than the Dracula roles he is type cast in, he wants to move into romantic leads. Of course, his studio want none of this and send two screen writers to his wonderful Gothic castle to persuade him to sign on to another horror flick. The film opens with some awful bouncy music to set it up as a comedy and, to be fair, it does have some moments of mirth. The men have a pair of actresses to keep them company, and to provide some titillation of course. One of them is Miou Miou, who was in the Gerard Depardieu movie, Les Valseuses and the infamous Themroc (one of the red triangle films from Channel 4's early years) and wears a horrid wig throughout, but fortunately not much else.

They are met at the castle by the obligatory ugly servants, Boris and Héloise, who used to be man and wife until Boris had an accident with an axe. “A terrible blow to his manhood” She is now married to MacGregor, Cushing's character. As usual, Cushing puts everything into his role. He makes the corny lines humorous and his sudden angry outbursts are both brilliant and shocking. It is easy to forget the man was a brilliant actor and not just a horror icon, his talent for comedy obviously overlooked, bar a few unforgettable appearances on The Morecambe and Wise Show. Where some actors would easily turn a performance like this into high camp, Peter plays it as straight as he ever does and it is all the more humorous for it.

Héloise (real name Mabel but that was neither Gothic nor romantic enough) is played by Alida Valli, a veteran of French art house cinema, including Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face) but is more familiar to genre fans as Miss Tanner in Dario Argento's Suspiria.

At one point MacGregor is flicking through a book of photos of his past roles reminiscing and we see a few of Cushing's real characters, such asGrimsdyke from Tales From The Crypt. We learn his back story; he came from a long line of grave diggers who disowned him when he ran away to be an actor, and his grandfather had haunted every role he has played, ironically the first being the gravedigger in Macbeth, a role Cushing himself had played earlier in his career.

In amongst the slapstick French humour, nudity and bizarre musical numbers there is some really good gory pieces. Some bordering on the sadistic, with Héloise carving her name into one of the writer's legs. Oh, and dear old Peter gets to do a little bit of spanking too. Nice work if you can get it, eh? At certain points during the film it even felt like a prototype Rocky Horror Show, without being as knowing and self aware of course.

The whole thing ends with a mass orgy (soft core only obviously and rather lacking in the erotic), with the film director declaring there is no future in horror films, the big money is in sex. Sadly, at the time this film was made that does seem to be true. It is certainly not as surreal and elitist as Jean Rollin films, (which some reviewers have likened this to) and it is one that should be seen if only for Cushing's wonderful performance. It is a shame that the film seems to have disappeared from circulation.

The French trend of horror comedy, for want of a better description, continued in 1976 with Dracula, Pere et Fils (Dracula, Father and Son).This time none other than the Count himself, Sir Christopher Lee, was recruited to don the cape and put up with the japes.

Bernard Menez, who played the main writer in Tender Dracula, turns up again, this time as the heir and only son to the Prince of Darkness.

Again, here Lee tries his best with the pretty awful script but does seem to take himself far too seriously to allow the humour to come though. After a brief introduction, in which we find Dracula take a bride, literally since she is abducted from a broken down carriage, to bear him a son.

The first 15 or so minutes could have come straight from a Hammer film, and is actually nicely atmospheric. It only needed Michael Ripper to turn up as an inn keeper.

The boy is mischievous, locking his vampiric nanny out in the sunlight for instance. Lee's sagely advice “One does not play with the ashes of one's mother” and “ drink your blood before it goes cold” falls on deaf ears with the boy. After 116 years, the boy has grown into a mid 30s adult. Not quite sure how that happened, and no attempt is made to explain it either. Or am I just being pedantic?

Unfortunately he has not yet developed his father's killer instinct and is rather squeamish at biting anybody, much to his father's dismay “I'm not biting him, he has a moustache!” and so lives on cats and rats.

With the passage of time, so the times have a-changed. Hippies are partying in the Count's castle, and they decide to flee the country and start a new life. They dress as sailors and stow away in their coffins on a boat bound for the promised land. Of course, things do not go as planned and they are buried at sea when their coffins are found. This splits the two up, each with a new destiny.
The Count ends up wandering modern day England desperate for a drink, breaking into a house only to bite down on a blow up doll. He is discovered by a film director roaming the streets and becomes a big horror star.

The son, however, is taken in by an immigrant and works nights as a security officer, sleeping in a make shift coffin under his bed during the day. The pair are reunited and both fall for the same girl, but of course both want different things from her. The Count, to make her one of the undead, the son to love and live a normal life.

This film is a little better known than the Cushing one, which is a shame because it is not the better of the two. There are several versions in circulation, one in the original French language, with old clever dick Lee speaking all his lines himself, being the multi-linguist he is. An English dubbed version, again with Lee's own voice thankfully, and an American dubbed version.

The American version has all the characters speaking as if they have come straight from a Scorsese film and it suffers greatly from it. They even dub the mighty Lee! The sacrilege. It is also cut differently, and its only redeeming feature is a little pre-credit sequence, made up of badly drawn characters trying to explain the vampires existence through history. No real attempt is made to animate the drawings, apart from some zoom ins and cut out movement. A little like the old Spiderman cartoon. Only no where near as good.

It is to be noted, that even though the Dracula name is used in the title, there is no mention of the name in the film apart from in the dubbed US version so I would not really class it as a return of Lee as the Count. I believe he actually objected to the title himself. But, of course anyone who knows anything about Sir Christopher will understand why and believe it.

Both of these French films are very hard to find, in fact the version of Tender Dracula I saw was sourced from a Turkish TV screening. Although some generous sole has put the whole of Dracula Pere et Fils on You Tube, cut up into bite sized chunks. It is still not easy to digest though.

While on the subject of odd entries into the Dracula cycle, I think it is fitting to include Vampira. Nothing to do with the iconic Maila Nurmi persona from the 50s (and star of Plan 9) this was made in 1974, and is a British comedy with David Niven as the Count. Not the first person you would think of in the role but his dry British wit lends itself very well to this updating of the character. Retitled Old Dracula in America to cash in onYoung Frankenstein, a comparison of which I imagine did this film no favours, this is much more of a satire than a parody. In fact, reading some of the American critics reviews for this prove it out, I think they were expecting the same sort of treatment here that Brooks did for the monster franchise.

This seems a bigger budget affair than the French films, with a great British cast and wonderfully sleazy theme song by Anthony Newley, (a credit for which is strangely missing from 'Mr Candy Man' Newley's IMDB listings). Niven, not being known for the horror genre can really get his teeth into the comedic aspects of the script (I'm sorry, I know that is corny but I had to try and fit it in somewhere). British stalwarts Bernard Bresslaw, Freddie Jones and Frank Thornton all pop up, and the glamour is provided by the likes of Veronica Carlson, Jennie Linden and Linda Hayden, none of them strangers to the genre.

This is really a satire on the 1970s culture and values rather than the horror genre, with the Vampira of the title being the Counts slumbering love who is revived by a blood transfusion only to come back black. The much younger Vampira finds this new look very liberating, much to the aged Counts dismay. What’s interesting watching this today, is it does not have the usual 70s racist undertone. While The Count is a little taken aback at his new coloured bride, and tries to find an antidote to bring her back, it does not resort to name calling, or any stereotype for the laughs. So when she does become hip and 'superfly' it says more about feminism and liberation going on at the time rather than mocking. This reborn Vampira is played by Teresa Graves, who then went on to star in the TV series Get Christie Love! Vampira is out partying in London,, and it's apparently still swinging, after the 60s, while Dracula is putting a young photographer under his control to get more blood samples to hopefully bring back his old love the way he remembers her.

There are some really funny lines, and the film is nowhere near as bad as it could have been, thanks to the writer, Jeremy Lloyd, who should have been allowed to write more for the cinema. He made his name, of course, with classic sitcoms Are You Being Served and 'Allo 'Allo, but please do not let that put you off this!

For some reason this is another film that is quite hard to get hold of. I'm fairly sure it has been on British TV back in the days when they would put anything on to fill the schedules at night. It is certainly better than the George Hamilton film, Love At First Bite, which does turn up now and again, so maybe there's hope. It's certainly worth keeping an eye open for.

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0 #3 Martin Unsworth 2011-07-01 23:31
Quoting Nigel Burton:
For anyone seeking comedy and grue I'd recommend a double bill of Andy Warhol's Dracula and Frankenstein. The latter (re-titled Flesh for Frankenstein and shown in 3-D)

Totally agree with you on the Paul Morrissey "Warhol" movies, can't get enough of Udo Kier!
+1 #2 Nigel Burton 2011-07-01 19:25
I remember watching Vampira when it was on an ITV Fear on Friday about 20 years ago. Although Niven clearly had a ball, I was disappointed in the lack of gore.
For anyone seeking comedy and grue I'd recommend a double bill of Andy Warhol's Dracula and Frankenstein. The latter (re-titled Flesh for Frankenstein and shown in 3-D) was carved up by the BBFC on its release in 1975 and the uncut version was classified as a video nasty. Both are available on DVD in these more enlightened times.
+1 #1 Mr Cheese 2011-06-21 22:46
Love the look of some of these - especially David Niven in Vampira

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You've heard about A.J. Barker, maybe even read is 4,000- word complaint about the way he was mistreated at the U.

He is a wide receiver in football. Well, there is another A.J. on campus.

He is freshman forward A.J. Michaelson and he probably had his best weekend on the ice in Vermont. Michaelson had an assist -- his first career point -- on the Gophers' first goal of a 5-1 victory over the Catamounts on Friday. Afterward, Gophers coach Don Lucia mentioned how well Michaelson played.

On Saturday, A.J., the hockey player, scored the game-winning goal as the U beat Vermont again 3-1. He was named the No. 1 star in that game. ... Serratore was the third star.

He had four shots on goal, playing left wing on Travis Boyd's line, the third line. Only Nick Bjugstad had more shots on net, five, for the Gophers. ... On Friday, A.J. had only one shot on goal but was a plus-2.

His goal came only 70 seconds after Tom Serratore, the fourth line center, scored in the second period. Serratore's goal made it 1-0 Gophers, Michaelson's 2-0.

The 5-11, 200-pound Michaelson played for Waterloo of the USHL last season and had 27 points, counting playoffs. He played high school hockey at Apple Valley.

* Junior defenseman Mark Alt was a plus-two on Saturday for the Gophers. He and his fellow blue-liners continue to make life relatively easy for freshman goalie Adam Wilcox. He only face 27 shots on Saturday, stopping eight in the first period, and nine in both the second and third. ... Wilcox's 1.46 goals-against average is the fourth lowest in the nation.

* The Gophers power-play is in a mini-slump. It was 0-for-4 on Saturday with six shots on goal.

* Serratore centered two defensemen on Saturday. Justin Holl was his left wing, Jack Parenteau his right. So the Gophers had eight actual defensemen in the game. ... Serratore's goal was his third of the season. Nate Condon got the third Gophers' goal, a late empty-netter.

* Only two Division I teams have longer unbeaten streaks than the Gophers who are 4-0-2 in their last six games. Boston College, which will be in the Mariucci Classic, is 10-0-0 after losing its season opener. Niagara is unbeaten in nine game, 7-0-2.

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A major fish poaching scheme involving the buying and selling of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of walleyes netted from some of northern Minnesota’s most popular lakes has been busted, authorities said Wednesday.

Ten men from northern Minnesota have been indicted for allegedly netting walleyes and other fish from lakes on the Red Lake and Leech Lake Indian reservations and selling them in violation of federal, state and tribal law.

The illegal activity allegedly has occurred since 2009 and was widespread. An unknown number of other people also face state and tribal charges, authorities said. Among the lakes where fish were netted and then sold were Leech, Cass, Winnibigoshish, Red and Six Mile, according to indictments Tuesday in Minneapolis.

“It’s a very big deal,’’ said Jim Konrad, enforcement director for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). “It’s illegal activity that has significant effects not only on state resources, but tribal resources.’’

The charges alone, which were investigated by the DNR, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Leech Lake and Red Lake bands, may not curtail the illegal activity, Konrad said.

“Nothing will end it until people stop buying fish [illegally],’’ he said. “If the demand doesn’t end, it will continue.’’

A bar owner in Bagley and a restaurant owner in Bena are among those who allegedly bought walleyes.

The charges recall similar poaching allegations dating to the early 1990s that led to the collapse of the walleye fishery on the 212,000-acre Upper and Lower Red Lake. Walleyes from Red Lake were routinely sold as far south as the Twin Cities.

The lake’s walleye fishery has since been restored by the DNR and the Red Lake band.

Konrad declined to comment further, saying that the DNR would hold a news conference Monday in St. Paul.

Lenny Fineday, legal director for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, said the number of people involved is large.

“Between 15 and 20 individuals will likely be issued tribal citations,’’ he said. Those people are either members of the Leech Lake Band or other bands.

Those convicted face fines and possible revocation of hunting, fishing and gathering rights, he said.

“Under the band’s conservation code, the act of netting was not illegal,’’ Fineday emphasized. “Band members have every right to net for sustenance fishing. It was the act of selling the fish that was illegal.’’

Rumors for years

Tom Neustrom of Grand Rapids, who guides on many of the lakes, said rumors have been flying for years that band members were netting fish and selling them.

“I take my hat off to the DNR and federal government for doing something about it,’’ he said.

“We’re all stewards of the water, whether Native American or white, and if we don’t take care of this, we won’t have it. We saw what happened on Red Lake.’’

The undercover investigation leading to the indictments began in 2009, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis. Officers made several purchases of illegally taken fish, according to the indictments, and seized fish by using search warrants.

The indictments alleges violation of the federal Lacey Act, which typically concerns the illegal interstate transport of game and fish. The act can also be invoked when a tribal law is being broken, a source familiar with the case said.

The 10 indicted men face potential maximum penalties of five years in federal prison on each count.

Charged were: Larry W. Bellefy, 53, of Bagley; Thomas P. Sumner, 54, Larry Good, 58, and Brian W. Holthusen, 47, all of Red Lake; Michael D. Brown, 54, no known address; Michael J. Nei, 48, of Bemidji, Jerry A. Reyes, 51, of Cass Lake; and Marc L. Lyons, 61; Frederick W. Tibbetts, 61, and Alan D. Hemme, 55, all of Bena.

The indictments allege that the suspects knowingly engaged in conduct that involved the sale and purchase of fish. Authorities estimated the value of all the fish involved to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The first indictment alleges that between July 2009 and July 2011, Bellefy, Sumner and Holthusen took fish from Red Lake without approval of the Red Lake Fisheries Association. The indictment alleges that Sumner and Holthusen obtained the fish and then sold them to Bellefy, who resold them. He owns a bar in Bagley.

The second indictment alleges that between July 2010 and July 2011, Brown and Nei netted fish from Leech Lake for commercial purposes. It states that Brown caught the fish, then sold them to Nei.

The third indictment alleges that between July 2009 and July 2011, Reyes, Lyons, Tibbetts, and Hemme also took fish from several lakes on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation.

That indictment claims Ryes, Lyons and Tibbetts took the fish from the lakes and then sold them to Hemme, who owns a restaurant in Bena.

The fourth indictment alleges that between July 2009 and July 2011, Good took fish from Red Lake without approval of the Red Lake Fisheries Association.


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At 77, Doug Erbeck is retired — technically — but you won’t find him sitting in a rocking chair killing time.

When he’s not angling for panfish on Twin Cities-area lakes, which is frequently, or competing in long-distance running races, or gardening, or volunteering with the Fur, Fin & Feather Club in Osseo, the former veterinary pathologist peddles an easy-tie fishing jig he invented and sells.

He calls it the Fisherbeck lure.

“I guarantee you’ll catch more and larger bluegills with the easiest-to-thread jig on the market today,’’ said the gregarious Erbeck, of Crystal.

Fumbling while trying to tie 2-pound-test fishing line onto a small jig one cold winter morning several years ago, Erbeck had a light bulb moment. “Those darn little bitty jigs have such small eyes, they’re hard to thread,’’ he said.

And paint must first be removed from them — a tedious affair. Erbeck figured he could do better.

In 2010, he made a clay model and brainstormed with son-in-law Marty Stone of Arden Hills, an engineer. The result: Fisherbeck Easy Threading Jigs, which have funnels to thread the line through instead of a small eye. He got a patent, found a manufacturer and began making and selling them.

“It’s easier to thread for everybody, but it’s particularly attractive for elderly people, for handicapped people, for kids and for ice fishing, because your hands get cold,’’ he said.

But Erbeck found it difficult getting into the tackle-making business; there’s lots of competition.

“I did the patent all by myself, without any lawyers,’’ he said proudly. “The first lawyer I talked to wanted $15,000 to do it. So I went online. The patent office people actually helped me.’’

He sells the jigs three for $5 on his website (, at fishing shows and a few bait shops, including Frankies Bait in Chisago City, Capra’s Sporting Goods in Blaine, Harty’s Bait Shop at Medicine Lake and Vados Bait in Spring Lake Park.

Sales have been good, but Erbeck laughs when asked if he’s getting rich.

“It’s coming slow but sure,’’ he said. “I’m not making a lot of money, just enough to put back into the business.’’

He’s adding a second jig, one to target big crappies. “It will be the same as the Fisherbeck, only a different color, white glow-in-the-dark with pink eyes. Hopefully, this will take off.’’

His jigs originally were made in China, but he’s found a manufacturer in Illinois to make the next batch, including the new crappie jigs. All are made of tin instead of lead.

“It’s environmentally friendly,’’ Erbeck said. “And with tin, it sinks a bit slower and the fish will grab it.’’

The orange and black jigs are meant to be especially effective on bluegills, Erbeck’s favorite fish.

“To me, bluegills are the premier eating fish of Minnesota,” he said. “And it’s so much fun.’’

He knows Minnesota is a walleye state. “But I’m completely into bluegills; I catch walleyes accidentally.’’

And crappies.

“I catch a lot of crappies,’’ Erbeck said. “Yesterday I caught twice as many crappies as bluegills.’’

He doesn’t use minnows. “I use a white plastic twister tail, or a couple of waxworms,’’ Erbeck said. Sometimes he jigs or casts his lure, sometimes he uses a bobber and still-fishes.

Regardless, he’s on the water about twice a week, year-round.

“I limit myself to lakes right in the Twin Cities,’’ he said. He figures he’s fished about 40 metro lakes.

“I make one exception: Lake Osakis. That’s my nirvana,’’ Erbeck said. “Just like walleye fishermen go to Mille Lacs, I go to Osakis. I know some spots and I catch some really big bluegills.

“I furnish cleaned, fileted fish for all my friends and my big extended family.’’

His advice: ‘Stay active’

Erbeck spent most of his life in Wisconsin. He was born in Superior, grew up near Green Bay and, after becoming a veterinarian, operated two small-animal hospitals and a clinic in the Chippewa Falls-Eau Claire area.

“At age 50, I felt I was getting behind what was happening in medicine, so I went back to school and got a Ph.D. in veterinary pathology, which took me to Kentucky,’’ he said.

Where he got hooked on panfish. “People there were really into crappies, and I started fishing for them and found huge bluegills,’’ Erbeck said.

He moved to Minnesota 12 years ago and did cancer research, then retired three years ago — only to go into the tackle-making business with two partners, son-in-law Stone and daughter Amy.

Erbeck is a member of the Minnesota Distance Runners Association, and ran a half-marathon this spring in 2 hours, 23 minutes. “At my age, I was happy with it,’’ he said. “I think running has helped my health and mental well-being.’’

He also has an understanding partner. “My wife, Faye, has supported my fishing and hunting all 53 years of our marriage,’’ Erbeck said. They have three daughters and nine grandchildren.

And a fledgling business.

“I’m just having fun in life, I really am,’’ Erbeck said.

His advice to retirees: “Be active, have fun … and go fishing.’’

Doug Smith


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From   Sheela Athreya <>
Subject   st: cluster dendrogram
Date   Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:08:54 -0600 (CST)

I posted this message earlier but I do not think I succeeded.  My apologies if
it is redundant.

Has anyone using Stata for Mac OSX run into the following problem:

After performing a hierarchical clustering command, I then try to view the tree
and the most bizarre thing happens: the branches are plotted upside-down.  The
axes and labels are all in the correct places, but the tree itself is not.  The
nodes are upside-down and the ends of the dendrogram are facing up instead of
pointing to the labels.

I have a suspicion that this is a bug with OSX but I can't be sure since I
don't have access to another version of Stata.

Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

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Subject   st: Re: overidentification test after reg3
Date   Sun, 1 Oct 2006 07:13:13 -0400

I don't think that the reg3 syntax you are using will properly handle the notion that a nonlinear transformation of a LHS variable should be considered endogenous. The alternative syntax -- with the endog() option -- will allow you to specify that those d ln p variables are to be treated as endogenous. But the default syntax of reg3 (see help reg3) causes Stata to take the LHS variables as endogenous and treat all others as exogenous. You will probably get quite different results from your reg3 if you correct this. I would suggest estimating the system without constraints, as you have it and as it should be, to analyse the differences, before reimposing the constraints appropriate from economic theory.

Others may want to comment on the notion of an instrumental variables estimator in which some of the endogenous variables to be instrumented are nonlinear transformations of the LHS variables.

The Wooldridge formula you quoted for the Sargan test should then give you a somewhat more sensible d.f. if all the references to d ln p variables are taken as endogneous variables rather than exogenous variables.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
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On Oct 1, 2006, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:

Thank you for your trying to help me. What I didn't mentionned (and that's =
it was unclear) is that the

dlnp`i' with i =3D1, 2, 3, 4 which are on the RHS of the first 4 equations
correspond to the p`i' (dlnp`i' are just in log and in difference).
ddeflexp is also a tranformed form for exp.
So the variables I supposed to be endogeneous are the four dlnp`i' and exp,
that's why I have written 5 equations of instrumentation.

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From   Kit Baum <>
Subject st: Re: overidentification test after reg3
Date Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:00:47 -0400

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It is not apparent that this system is simultaneous. The dependent variable=
s are
dw1,dw3, dw3, exp, p1, p2, p3, p4 =3D 7. I do not see any of those variable=
s on
the RHS of other equations. If that is the case, there is no simultaneity h=
and each equation can be estimated by OLS (or, with constraints across
equations, as a SUR via sureg).

If there is no simultaneity, there is no question of identification, and th=
us no
need for a test of overidentifying restrictions. It is not surprising that =
routine referenced should come up with a huge number of d.f., as the number=
exogenous variables is huge, and that will be multiplied by 7. By my count
you're estimating 48 RHS coefficients (plus constant terms) minus 6
constraints, or 42. Somehow, I knew the answer should be 42.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:

On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Valerie wrote:

am trying to run an over identification test for a constrained
simultaneaous model (with reg3). It is the following :

constraint 1 [dw1]dlnp2 =3D [dw2]dlnp1
constraint 2 [dw1]dlnp3 =3D [dw3]dlnp1
constraint 3 [dw2]dlnp3 =3D [dw3]dlnp2
constraint 4 [dw1]dlnp1 + [dw1]dlnp2 + [dw1]dlnp3 + [dw1]dlnp4 =3D0
constraint 5 [dw2]dlnp1 + [dw2]dlnp2 + [dw2]dlnp3 + [dw2]dlnp4 =3D0
constraint 6 [dw3]dlnp1 + [dw3]dlnp2 + [dw3]dlnp3 + [dw3]dlnp4 =3D0

reg3(dw1 ddeflexp dlnp1 dlnp2 dlnp3 dlnp4 period dlnyear) /*
*/ (dw2 ddeflexp dlnp1 dlnp2 dlnp3 dlnp4 period dlnyear)/*
*/ (dw3 ddeflexp dlnp1 dlnp2 dlnp3 dlnp4 period dlnyear) /*
*/ (exp explag PIB period)/*
*/ (p1 pxlaitcomteinterp pxlaitcomteinterplag1 ind_sal_interp
pourc_vol_ean_1 pourc_vol_MDDHD_1)/* */ (p2 pxlaitstandinterp
pxlaitstandinterplag1 ind_sal_interp pourc_vol_ean_2 pourc_vol_MDDHD_2)/*
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Court Date Scheduled for Graham Spanier's Lawsuit Against Penn State

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The first court date has been set in the case involving former Penn State President Graham Spanier filed against Penn State in an attempt to force the university to turn over emails that are now a part of the Freeh investigation.

An Argument on Preliminary Objections is scheduled for Aug. 17 at 10:30 a.m. in Courtroom 1 of the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, according to court documents.

It is unknown whether Spanier will be in court.

On May 25, Spanier filed a suit against Penn State to force the university to turn over emails now part of the Freeh investigation. Some of the emails he is seeking could date as far back as 1996.

Spanier said in the initial filing he wanted the opportunity to "refresh his memory" were he to be questioned by law enforcement officials regarding his handling of incidents involving former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who recently was found guilty on 45 of 48 charges related to child sex abuse.

Penn State quickly fired back, saying not only was his complaint misdirected at the university, but the emails are no longer his possession.

Attorneys for the university asked a judge to dismiss Spanier's complaint "in its entirety."

Penn State said in its rebuttal, filed June 14 that Spanier failed to "exhaust the right-to-know law," and his request for the emails is "at its core, an attack on the directive on the Office of the Attorney General not to disclose the emails it has obtained as a result of the investigation."

Penn State stated in its 70-page document that it has a "legal obligation" to cooperate with the Attorney General's Office.

Spanier then asked the court to overrule Penn State's objections, also in its entirety, on July 2.

Attorneys representing Spanier filed documents Monday requesting an overruling of the university's request and asked that the court grant to Spanier "such other and further relief as is just and proper under the circumstances."

In the 26-page document filed this week, Spanier said he is correct in directing his complaint at Penn State, not at the Attorney General's Office, and "the university lacks merit" in its attempt to deflect the filing.

Spanier asserted that the university has not been "interposed" between the Attorney General's Office and Spanier.

"The university is under no compulsion to comply with the Attorney General's requests," the document reads. It says the right-to-know argument made by Penn State is invalid.

The documents also deny Spanier's emails are university property, because "not one of the authorities cited by the university holds that employees lack ownership rights over emails that they author and receive."

Meanwhile, the Freeh Report has yet to be published, though it is expected to be out in the coming weeks, most likely before the end of July.

As of May 4, the investigation led by former FBI director Freeh conducted at least 400 interviews with individuals affiliated with Penn State. The investigation is looking to uncover any potential wrongdoing that may have led to a child predator roaming free on campus.

Freeh and his team are expected to publish the report, which will be available publicly, by the beginning of the fall semester, though there have been reports it could be released later this month.

Much speculation has surrounded some of the emails, potentially even those in question, after some of those involved in the Freeh Report were leaked to CNN, ABC and confirmed by ESPN.

CNN reported last week that more than two weeks after former assistant coach Mike McQueary walked in on Sandusky in a shower with a boy in the Lasch Football Building in 2001, three top Penn State administrators reportedly exchanged a series of emails about whether to contact The Second Mile or the state Department of Welfare.

In the report, CNN said former athletic director Tim Curley referenced a conversation with Spanier. Curley wanted to talk with Sandusky before taking any action, according to the emails.

An email from Curley also indicated he had talked with former football coach Joe Paterno about the situation.

The Penn State Board of Trustees terminated Spanier's contract, along with Paterno's, at a meeting on Nov. 9.

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University President Michael Crow said in a Staff Council Town Hall Tuesday that he is very aware of how some universities become dysfunctional.

“It’s kind of tiresome,” he said. “The way that I prefer to handle that mode of operation is the way we operate is that we try to be responsive to people’s concerns; we try to be responsive to council issues and find a way to bring about resolution.”

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Crow said he wanted to reiterate that ASU is not a state agency but instead an academic enterprise operating under the Arizona Board of Regents with a public purpose and duty to the people.

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Crow mapped out three objectives he wishes the University to accomplish. He wants ASU to produce world-class graduates, he wants to create an environment in which new ideas are produced and he wants to produce technologies and tools and innovations.

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“Staff will be grown in a number of areas in the fiscal year,” he said.

He was also asked about the plans for installing an air conditioning unit in the Central Plant on the Tempe campus. The building reaches extreme temperatures in the summer months while employees must work eight-hour shifts.

Crow did not have an immediate solution, as he was unaware of the problem.

“I’ll ask Dr. Morgan Olsen, our executive vice president and treasurer to get an answer to that question,” he said.

Crow was asked how the Affordable Health Care Act would affect student employment hours.

He let Olsen provide an answer to the question.

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Olsen said individual student employees would be limited in total hours so they stay below that threshold.

In response to a question concerning plans to renew ASU efforts to curb tobacco use on campus, Crow said it was more of a behavioral thing than a criminal problem and the most effective way to enforce the rule was peer modification.

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In reference to the events that occurred with the controversial party that members of Tau Kappa Epsilon hosted, Crow was asked what his plans were to improve race relations at ASU.

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