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Perimeter Institute (PI) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote academic ties and collaboration on outreach programs between the institutes.
The agreement will facilitate a flow of researchers between the institutes, with extended visits of two to four weeks, and will encourage collaborations on workshops and schools on subjects of common interest. Faculty, postdoctoral researchers and advanced PhD students will be eligible to participate in the program. The agreement is for one year, and may be renewed for another two years at the end of the current term.
Both PI and ICTP pursue research in fundamental physics, and have several areas of research focus in common, including quantum gravity, superstring theory, cosmology and gravitation, and particle physics. Founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, ICTP also has a particular mandate to transfer knowledge to scientists from developing countries.
The agreement was signed during a UNESCO conference titled Africa: the Choice of Science, the AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) Initiative, held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from April 14 – 15, 2011.


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- "You may have some of the power of the saints, but you use it only for destruction. You have never felt the full force of the universe deep within your body, have you?"
- ― Seiya to Cassios (Saint Seiya)
The power to manipulate all cosmic forces.
Also Called
- Asterokinesis
- Astronomical Manipulation
- Cosmic Power
- Cosmokinesis
- Cosmos Manipulation
- The Power Cosmic (Marvel Comics)
User can create, shape and manipulate cosmic energies to produce nearly any effect they desire, including the molecular restructuring and transmutation of matter, the manipulation of matter across space and time, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortices, telekinesis, and cosmic awareness.
User can call upon the comets, meteors, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, nebula, neutron stars, quasars, black holes, white holes, and dark matter. They can generate stellar winds, solar flares, cosmic storms and invoke meteor showers.
- Astronomical Object Manipulation
- Corona Manipulation
- Cosmic Attacks
- Cosmic Awareness
- Cosmic Constructs
- Cosmic Creation
- Cosmic Defense
- Cosmic Destruction
- Cosmic Element Manipulation
- Cosmic Generation
- Cosmic Immunity
- Cosmic Medium Manipulation
- Cosmic Solidification
- Cosmic Space Manipulation
- Cosmic Weather Manipulation
- Fundamental Forces Manipulation
- Space-Time Manipulation
- Space Wind Defiance
- Universe Residue Manipulation
- Astrokinetic Combat
- Celestial Combat
- Cosmic Aura
- Cosmic Empowerment
- Cosmic Event Empowerment
- Cosmic Energy Physiology
- Cosmic Healing
- Cosmic Regeneration
- Cosmic Teleportation
- Cosmological Force Manipulation
- Meteor Summoning
- Absolute Senses: Sense everything at an infinite scale.
- Cosmic Embodiment
- Cosmic Magic
- Cosmic Radiation Evolution Manipulation: To accelerate and control the evolution of life forms on a planet-wide scale.
- Cosmic Telepathy: To read minds and influence emotion and sensation at a cosmic level.
- Esoteric Cosmic Manipulation
- Existence Manipulation: Total control over an entirety, ranging from Space-Time to reality, dimensions and subspaces bordering in between them.
- Meta Matter Manipulation
- Meta Power Manipulation: And the bestowal of limited cosmic powers to others. Some may also possess the ability to suppress the powers of other beings temporarily or permanently.
- Omni-Element Manipulation/Omni-Energy Manipulation: Some have complete control of the four fundamental forces of the universe, reaching nearly any effect they desire. As a result, the user can rearrange matter to create other configurations and can even transmute elements. They can channel beams of energy with sufficient destructive force to destroy planets, and discharge of any form of energy or radiation.
- Omni-Manipulation: To manipulate most if not any and all natural forces on a cosmic level.
- Quantum Energy Manipulation
- Remaking: To alter and control anything or anyone through precise transformative cosmic manipulation.
- Universal Force Manipulation
- Celestial Manipulation
- Celestial Event Manipulation
- Cosmic Entity Physiology
- Cosmic Hunger
- Cosmic Knowledge
- Cosmic Mode
- Infernal Manipulation
- Transcendent Alien Physiology
- Universal Content Manipulation
- May stem into Galaxy Manipulation and later Universal Manipulation.
- May be unable to create or form new planets and inhabitants into existence.
- Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user, and their power's natural limits.
- Requires training to prevent many side-effects.
Known Users
- The Staints (Saint Seiya)
- Michael Korvac (Marvel Comics)
- Surtur (Marvel Comics)
- Storm (Marvel Comics)
- Scarlet Witch (Marvel Comics)
- Silver Surfer (Marvel Comics)
- Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
- Galactus (Marvel Comics)
- The Celestials (Marvel Comics)
- The Heralds of Galactus (Marvel Comics)
- Galacta (Marvel Comics)
- Eternals (Marvel Comics)
- Thanos (Marvel Comics)
- Ronan the Accuser (Marvel Comics); via Universal Weapon
- The Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
- Jean Grey (Marvel Comics); as the host of the Phoenix Force entity.
- Sequoia (Marvel Comics)
- Ebrietas (Bloodborne); Daughter of Cosmos
- The Hunter (Bloodborne); after ascending into a cosmic Great One
- Kin of the cosmos (Bloodborne)
- The M'Kraan Crystal (X-Men/Marvel Comics)
- Janemba (Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn)
- Sailor Senshi (Sailor Moon)
- Gingamen and the Seijuu (Seijuu Sentai Gingaman)
- Anti-Spiral (Gurren Lagann)
- Jellal Fernandes (Fairy Tail)
- Nova (Marvel Comics)
- To'Kustars (Ben 10:Ultimate Alien/Omniverse)
- Way Big
- Evil Way Big/Albedo
- Celestialsapiens (Ben 10)
- Alien X
- SCP-515 - Sleeper (SCP Foundation)
- Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons Game); via Hand of Buddha
- To'kustars (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Stella (Winx Club)
- Great Spirit (Shaman King)
- Rex Salazar (Generator Rex); with the five Meta Nanites
- The Ten Makukan Rings (Iron Man: Armored Adventures)
- Geosynchronometer (Yin Yang Yo!)
- Cosmos (Valkyrie Crusade)
- Mountainbolt (Nindragon: Scale Squad 5); after permanently fusing energy with cosmic crystals
- Sandstorm (Nindragon: Scale Squad 5); after permanently fusing energy with cosmic crystals
- Genie (Disney's Aladdin)
- Jafar (Disney's Aladdin)
- Cosmoman Exe (Megaman Battle Network)
- Jenos (Paladins)
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Big Explosions and Strong Gravity
Welcome to the Big Explosions and Strong Gravity website. This is an event for middle-school teens (around ages 11-13, or Cadette Girl Scouts) that was specifically developed with Girl Scouts in mind. Please follow the links in the menu to the left to see pictures from the events or to read descriptions of the activities.
What is Big Explosions and Strong Gravity?
Big Explosions and Strong Gravity is an event where girls meet real scientists and join them for a day of exploration into supernovae and black holes. They do hands-on activities to learn about exciting ideas that will help them understand these fascinating phenomena. In the morning we explore elements in the universe and how light is broken up into all the colors of the rainbow, as well as how astronomers use this to tell what distant objects are made of. These activities provide the basis for our focus topics: black holes and supernovae, which we explore after a lunch filled with fun activities.
The history of the event
This event has now been run on five occasions (July 2004, June 2005, November 2006, April 2008, and April 2010) in the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland council. In that time, the event has been hosted at both Johns Hopkins University, and at a Girl Scout facility called Camp Ilchester. Over the years, many professors, physics and astronomy grad students, professional scientists and engineers, and Girl Scout volunteers have been involved in putting on these day-long events. This included astronomers from JHU, STScI, University of Maryland, CUA, and Goddard Space Flight Center.
In the summer of 2010, we ran a training at Goddard Space Flight Center which included representatives from 18 different Girl Scout councils around the country, who will bring the program to their own councils, as well as nearby councils that are interested.
The future
While we hope the event continues to run in the Central Maryland council, we want this curriculum to be available everywhere. We are exploring options to run other trainings in the future. In the meantime, the manual and other resources are freely available on this website to anybody who is interested. We will also be happy to help connect Girl Scout Councils with trainers in nearby councils who can help you with the specifics of the program.
Beyond this event, what else can interested girls do?
For girls who want to pursue an interest in space science beyond these one-day events, we have started a girl-driven teen Girl Scout club called "ACE of Space". Girls interested in pursuing this opportunity should contact the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland council.
These activities are made possible through NASA Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) funding. The first two years were provided by Chandra X-ray Center E/PO grants (during Cycles 5&6, PI: Hornschemeier). Continued support has been provided by a NASA ROSES E/PO supplemental grant [ROSES EPO-07-768, supplementary ADP grants 06-ADP06-27 (Hornschemeier), 06-ADP06-0065 (Loewenstein) and 06-ADP06-36 (Strohmayer)]. The Constellation-X Project has also provided procurement funds in 2008.


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Editorial: Time to unseal indictment in JonBenét Ramsey case
We hope the judge unseals what is reportedly an undisclosed indictment in the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey.
Granted, the unsolved killing of the 6-year-old pageant queen is a high-interest case, but the public interest is more than prurient.
The release of the document also would bring transparency to an important function of the judicial system without compromising grand jury secrecy.
Earlier this year, The Daily Camera reported a grand jury had voted in 1999 to indict JonBenét's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, on charges of child abuse resulting in death.
The newspaper also reported that the district attorney at the time, Alex Hunter, refused to sign the indictment and pursue prosecution because of a lack of evidence. The legal bar for conviction is higher than for indictment.
With the passing years, hopes of solving the case have grown dimmer. But this action could provide insight as to what happened.
Judge Robert Lowenbach on Thursday asked Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett why the indictment should remain private. Garnett's office on Friday said the judge can proceed as he "deems appropriate."
One of the justifications for secrecy has been to prevent release of information impugning someone not indicted. But the allegation is that the Ramseys had been indicted.
Disclosure of the indictment could provide a better understanding of why authorities acted as they did, and bring us closer to knowing what happened to a child found murdered in her own home.


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Rob and Kelley got the boot on Sunday's Amazing Race, but the post-show hubbub isn't about their exit, but rather Natalie and Nadiya keeping James and Abba's money after finding it in a travel agency. "We couldn't believe that. We were shocked watching it," Kelley tells TVGuide.com. "We had no idea that happened. That was crazy." The monster truckers say they would've returned the money and — unlike the show — penalized not only the twins, but Trey and Lexi, with whom the girls split the money. How would they have punished them? Plus: Find out what you didn't see in Sunday's episode.
Amazing Race's Gary and Will: We're responsible for our own demiseWhat's your take on the money issue?
Kelley: It was crazy! [Laughs]Rob: My take is this: If they didn't know whose money it was, I wouldn't have any issue with them taking it. But they plainly stated whose money it was and they said they wished that it was one of the other team's money. Blatantly in the rules it says that you cannot take anybody else's stuff. Period. They absolutely knew whose money it was and the guys were in the same room with them. I feel like it was wrong of CBS not to penalize them. It seems like the show doesn't consider that stealing because the rockers lost it.
Rob: Which I don't agree with. Both teams should've been disqualified for theft. That's the way that I feel. I wouldn't want my children to learn from that situation. ... All the fan comments I've seen online and on Facebook feel the same way. They feel like there's a rule because there's supposed to be a rule. With production saying, "Oh, they didn't know whose money it was" — that's a lie. They said it right on camera that it was the rockers' money. They knew and the right thing to do is to return it to the people it belongs to.So obviously you would've given it back.
Rob: Yes. We had two situations on the Race where we had other people's things and we made sure the teams got their stuff.Kelley: At the beginning of the Race, we were the last ones to get our bags. As it turned out, we also had another team's [fanny pack]. We realized it when we got to the airport and we brought it to production.Rob: And the other incident was we saw a taxi leaving with all the Chippendales' [Jaymes and James] stuff, and Kelley jumped out of our taxi and told the driver, "You can't leave until they get back."Kelley: He was following our taxi and we said, "You cannot go. They'll never find you. You have to stay here until they come back because you have all their stuff." We could've let him follow us and they would've been running through the marketplace looking for their stuff.This whole thing is overshadowing your elimination.
Kelley: We just got pushed right by! [Laughs] That's OK!Rob: It's all right. I feel like everything we did on the Race was very ethical and very much part of who we are. I felt very strong about our last comments on the mat and me being able to share with the world how much I love my wife and how much we're in love. We never fell to the level of some of the other teams. We were always supportive of each other, we played fair, we played the game on our playing field. We didn't follow the other teams. We didn't do what they were doing; we did what we were doing. That's the way we felt the way the game was supposed to be played. I didn't think it should be a team effort; I thought it was individuals working to win. We're very proud of what we did. If we were invited to go back, we'd definitely go back, but we'd still play our game.Did you know you were last when you were the only ones left at the Roadblock?
Kelley: Yeah, but they could've gotten lost on the way or got stuck in traffic or there could've been some kind of incident. We had different incidents happen with taxis, so anything could've happened. But we knew in our hearts that we were last.
Amazing Race's Caitlin and Brittany: We still don't understand how we got so lostHow far behind were you?
Rob: We were close because [Josh and Brent] were still on the mat talking to Phil when we arrived.Kelley: They had to step off the mat when we came, so it was minutes.Rob: When you watch the show, there are a lot of things that happen that [aren't] included in the show. [Viewers] didn't see that we got detained by the police.How did that happen?
Rob: We were running down the street and they didn't know if we had robbed something or what we had done. Then our camera guy told them, "No, they're not with me" because he didn't know what to say. [Laughs] The police didn't speak English and they wanted to check our paperwork, so they had to find somebody who spoke English to be able to translate back to them so they wouldn't take us to jail. That took about 45 minutes to an hour.
Kelley: We actually had to take two metros. After the first one, you had to get off, run a city block and cross two streets to get to the second metro. We were running from one to the other, so that's when we got stopped.You were adamant about staying on the metro even though taking a taxi was faster.
Kelley: The people on there insisted that that was the best way and the traffic was too heavy. But as we saw on TV, they were definitely wrong! The traffic was not heavy at all. It was heavy later in the day, but in the morning, the correct move was to take a taxi.How long did the train take?
Kelley: The first one wasn't very long, but the second one was inner city, so it kept stopping every block. The first one didn't have a lot of stops. We should've never gotten on the second one. And we probably wouldn't have gotten stopped by the police either because we would've gotten a taxi right away! And you never thought about getting off the train with the Chippendales?Rob: We don't follow.Kelley: We just trusted the fellow who helped us get on the train and get the coins and everything. We asked him if he thought they were making the right move or if they were screwing up and he said, "Definitely stay on the metro. The traffic's too heavy." We just went with the local's advice.
Amazing Race's Amy and Daniel: The stars weren't aligned for usYou guys took your own flight a few weeks ago and it arrived four hours later. Did you not do any research for better flights?
Rob: We didn't do research. We had no idea the other teams were on a better flight. I guess our biggest problem was we didn't know enough about all the different aspects of the Race and we weren't looking for anything. So after we got our tickets, we went up to the stands and sat down. We were going to sleep. Kelley: But there was a task layover and we started with everyone else in the morning, so the flight didn't hurt us. We had a relaxing day. We didn't have to deal with anyone else!In hindsight, was running your own race a good idea? You got lucky with the flight and bunching, but the metro didn't work out.
Kelley: It's probably not the right way to run completely on your own. In hindsight, when it came to the competitions and tasks, we were very good at all those things if we read the clue correctly! [Laughs] So I guess if we had stayed in a group with other teams, it would've worked out to our advantage as we got to each task and we could see where we were. But hindsight's 20/20.What are you up to now?
Kelley: We just got back from the rodeo finals and we're getting ready to head to Texas for another rodeo. Rob just got back from Guatemala and Nicaragua with the monster trucks.Rob: I'm going to Argentina in December.So you're still globe-trotting.
Rob: Pretty much! We told them in our interviews that we already live The Amazing Race. It's Amazing Race with money and a credit card in your pocket and a phone and GPS. And hopefully nobody steals them!


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Here's your scenario. A terrible famine has broken out in a geographical region of the world that's bigger than Ethiopia but smaller than Russia. The food riots have started. People are starving all over the area. You need to come up with a solution to the problem. What would you do?
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Bahá'ís throughout the world gather together this evening after sunset or tomorrow before sunset to commemorate
the First Day of the Month of 'Izzat…
"Sonnet in Honour of the Feast of `Izzat
or 'Might"
Judge well, my friend, adduce astutely;
perceive the might of any man,
By salutation there above it all, crowned,
a tarnished name become a lyric,
A word in apposition to the current legend; manipulated Pyrrhic
Hero whose deceiving ears–offending, apprehending what demands
Command the poll and elevate a fleeting circumstance and fame;
Even the rose is granted for the sake of a specific hour, a simple song
Fossilised before the melody has ceased when so easily as on
A clouded noxious day, all verbs clot and pronouns reign
In arrogance as thoughts turn to vapours and yesterday's gilding
Rise and fall. With nothing distilled from achievement
For want of aging, accidents deemed bold distraction
spend themselves in vain
In youth while untried strength
sustains the untended pun
Of forgery and fortune. But see this blossom
in the deepest well
And dying sees his heaven
while he knows he lives in hell.
…from: A Raison in the Sun, Act III by Loraine Hansberry
Love him?
There's nothing left to love.
There's always something left to love.
Have you cried for that boy today? Not for yourself and the family because we lost the money. I mean for him. And what he's gone through. And God help him. God help him, what it's done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he's done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and he can't believe in himself because the world's whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody measure him right, child. Measure him right. You make sure that you done taken into account the hills and the valleys he's come through to get to wherever he is….


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A male colleague of mine remarked to be recently that writing about vibrators is a Jezebel scribe's rite of passage. And, it's true, we totally write about vibrators a lot; in fact, I popped my own vibrator-story cherry not that long ago! It is a rare day, however, that any of us writes about male masturbatory aides — and, when we have, we usually focus on Real Dolls and how vaguely disturbing we find the men who are into them. But then I saw this article in The Independent today about the surge in men purchasing all sorts of things to their dicks into or up their butts, and I realized that it wasn't just sex dolls I find vaguely disturbing... and that that's kind of sexist of me.I mean, why is it that the mental image I have of a guy who utilizes sex toys is someone kind of creepy? Is this fleshlight any stranger-looking than a rabbit, really? Why is it that I am fine with a guy jerking off with his hands, but if he's jerking off in something I'm vaguely disturbed? Why is it not remotely strange to me that men would buy things to shove up their butts — or to have their partners shove up their butts — but, still, looking at this picture of something the would stick their dicks in, some reptilian part of my brain goes "Ewww."? Even the author of the article, Tanya Gold, admits to masturbating with mechanical aids, but seems to find male sex toys - from the pocket pussies to the pussy-in-a-jar devices to the blow-up and real dolls - disturbing in their appearance and what they say about the men who utilize them. So, is a pocket pussy sexist? Does it represent some sort of objectification of women in a way that a vibrator doesn't — or that masturbating generally doesn't? I have to admit, it isn't. I think part of my discomfort (or our discomfort) with the men who use such devices stems from a fear that the stereotype that men regard us as little more than convenient, comfortable orifices could actually be true for many of them. But I also know, from experience, that the stereotype isn't true for the kinds of men worth sleeping with, regardless of how they choose to masturbate — sex can be as intimate and connecting an experience for men as it is for women. For most men, jerking off in a plastic tube isn't going to be any more of a replacement for sex with a partner than masturbating is — and if your partner would rather masturbate than ever have sex with you, it's not the fault of the tube, but him. Guys And Dolls: A Revealing Look At Men's Sex Toys [The Independent]
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The real dolls are fucking creepy. Especially when they describe the dolls as a sleeping girl. That's a little rapey for my taste.
I don't have problems with male masturbatory aides. I have a few phallic shaped toys so I don't see how it's too different. I prefer vibrators and toys that aren't replica's of anatomy, like flesh colored ones with all the veins. Even the one penis-like one I own is bright blue and doesn't really look like a body part. I think the ew factor with a lot of pussy replicas is that they tend to be on the fleshy, realistic side so they look like dismembered body parts. And that's what's creepy.


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The Hollywood star took the decision to have the procedure when doctors told her that she had an 87 per cent risk of breast cancer and a 50 per cent risk of ovarian cancer.
She told Entertainment Weekly: "I was very, very moved by all the support and kindness from so many people."
The mother-of-six told the new edition of the magazine: "Wherever I go, usually I run into women and we talk about health issues, women's issues, breast cancer, ovarian cancer.
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(Glee cast version pulled from YouTube so I'm posting the most popular amateur cover).
I admit it, I never did put two and two together and realize that "landslide=orgasm." Seems I can learn something from a Very Special Episode about Sex too! The episode of Glee was impressive not only for taking on a lot of basic taboos about condom use, pregnancy, etc., but also in terms of how adroitly it used songs like Landslide to underline the distinctiveness of female from male homoeroticism.
Where to date Kurt was the stereotypical mainstream stand in for queers — the porcelain show queen — this week's episode revealed for the first time how much he feared actual sexual contact with a boy. It was left to the girls to turn up the heat around queer sex.
Kurt's virginity proved a nice foil for Santana, the "hot blooded Latina" whose sexuality to date has remained within an equally established mainstream cliche of female-female desire performed for the titillation of a male voyeur. For the first time, we got a hint at how this ruthless enforcer of high school hierarchy really feels about the boys she has seemed content to be passed around like a trophy. Landslide became her metaphor, not for growing out of "teenage experimentation" with fellow cheerleader, but of the shock of realizing she may be growing into an adult who doesn't need heteronormativity to prop her sexuality up.
I liked how the Sex Ed episode of Glee managed to be sex-positive without painting sex as anodyne. To the contrary it repeatedly drove home the Lacanian injunction that there is no such things as a sexual relationship. Love and Eros — "sex" and "relationship" — never can quite coincide, even as we cannot fail to aim for that sweet spot where we imagine they might. And this is as much the case, or even more so with the adults on the show as with the confused, horny teens. The swinging sex ed teacher who can't sustain a relationship past 36 hours; the virginal school counselor won't touch her own husband; the preening "glory days" choirmaster; the self-glorying cheerleading coach who is reduced to marrying herself; and the 'mannish' football coach who has never been kissed.
Only the god-fearing comic relief principal seems to occupy a place of full erotic (albeit marital) enjoyment, a location whose incongruity is underscored by the casting a South Asian actor to play a Christian mid-Westerner named Figgins. It is only in Figgins' world of the perpetual double take and continuous malapropism, it seems, that "true happiness" on Glee can be permitted to reside.
The other big gay news this week was Adam Lambert's returning to American Idol to play an "unplugged" version of the song Aftermath which he is also releasing a dance version of to raise funds for the anti-suicide hotline the Trevor Project. :
Philanthropic motives aside, I can't say this song moves me much. In my view, Adam's incredible vocal talent and relaxed, exuberant personality (the latter best witnessed on his Twitter feed and in interviews) is still being squandered on milquetoast material. I blame it on LA. Underneath all the black dye and emo posturing, Adam strikes me as a happy, well adjusted, California strawberry blond who is having the time of his life living la vida loca. His songs on behalf of the isolated and alienated teen sound no better nor worse to my ears than Public Service Announcements. No landslide here.


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At some point in our lives, we've all heard the classic axiom; "Do it once, do it right". There are many different variations of the saying but they all lead to the idea that you should do it right the first time. It applies to all aspects of life; any time you want to perform a task or do basically anything, you want to "do it right". In a perfect world, this would probably be possible. No one would ever make mistakes and it would just be a world devoid of any errors. Unfortunately, the world is far from perfect and people make mistakes. That's not necessarily a bad thing. With mistakes and failures comes growth. You learn from the error of your ways and you really don't grasp the concept of how to do things right the first time until you've screwed up somehow before. This is very evident in our automotive hobbyist endeavors. The concept of how to build a car "right" is really left up to the eye of the beholder, but the vision isn't quite clear until one has been through the perils of modifying cars.
The entire idea that you can build a car "right" the first time you do it is terribly unrealistic. You don't just wake up one day, throw parts on a car, and be happy with it the rest of your life. Creating a custom vehicle is all about the learning process. The final product is important, but it is the journey to that pinnacle that makes the build worthwhile. Not only do you learn as you go, you also develop different tastes as you get older. What you liked in your younger years may not be the same as what excites you later on. The whole adage of doing it once and doing it right is ironically flawed in itself because there's no such thing. The only time you'd ever be close to executing what you view as perfection is after you've already tried it once before with another car or perhaps in a different stage of your current project's existence.
People who have the adequate resources to build a car may have an easier time achieving what they view as "right". These are the same enthusiasts who are probably a little bit older and have some experience tinkering with cars under their belts. As a starving, struggling, college student, building a car is almost a comedy of errors. It is going to take some time to really get the car to what you envisioned it to be. You find yourself doing regretful things to your project car because you lack the time and money to devote to it.
Jeffrey Lu, the owner of this Crystal White 240SX coupe, knows the struggle all too well. He at one time was a starving college student moonlighting as a car enthusiast. The only reason his S13 came to fruition was to make up for all the follies he made the first time around with another S13 chassis. "I got into cars right after I graduated high school," Jeffrey says. "I started reading about grip driving and drifting because I found it interesting. My friends were all talking about it and I eventually bought a 240SX chassis to mess around with. The car was pretty junky but it was my toy during my college years. I even missed a midterm one time because I was looking for a good parking spot so I wouldn't risk getting my car bumper-checked by some random student. At times I couldn't even focus on my classes because I was just constantly thinking about driving my car—it was like a drug."
There's a real sense of love that exists between man and machine when you're willing to miss a class just to find a good parking spot for an otherwise beat-up Nissan. And while we don't recommend doing poorly in school because all you can think about is cruising around, we admire the candor. "After driving the car for a few years, it started to develop some serious wear and tear," Jeffrey says. "It wasn't even about trying to modify the car. Most of my time was spent fixing whatever was breaking constantly. Eventually I had to decide on whether or not to keep pouring money into it or look for another car. I couldn't see myself parting with the car, so I continued to do the necessary repairs on it. There wasn't a whole lot I could do with a minimum wage job and financial aid, but I even did an engine swap. It wasn't an SR20DET or anything but it was something. After that I added some suspension pieces and exhaust upgrades too. It wasn't anything to look at but it was mine."
Jeffrey's determination to keep his S13 paid off down the road, as he would meet a man who would change his outlook on automotive tuning forever. Dan from Rcrew Racing was looking for a new employee to help clean up around the shop and Jeffrey was the man for the job. His tasks were simple—clean, run errands, and do whatever else was needed of him at Rcrew. As a perk, he forged a great friendship with Dan who taught him everything he ever needed to know about not only road racing, but also the meaning of life and well-being. His relationship with his 240SX, however, deteriorated as he found himself having to ultimately sell the car because of financial troubles.
"I was so full of regret selling that car because I put everything I had into it," Jeffrey says. "I saved up later and thought about building a different car but I missed driving my 240SX. I had to build another one, but this time I'd build it the correct way."
The search for a new S13 led him to Bakersfield, CA. He hopped on a Greyhound bus and drove the car home, excited as ever to dive back into another S-chassis. Once he got the car home, the teardown began. The first order of business was to replace all the dated suspension components. Jeffrey was a regular on popular S-chassis forum, Zilvia.net, which had a trusted list of vendors. He did his research on the message board and chatted with fellow members before purchasing a myriad of suspension enhancements from companies like Tein, Whiteline, Cusco, Kazama, and Circuit Sport. Giving his newly acquired 240 a beefier overall appearance is a set of staggered, lightweight 18-inch TC105N from Japanese wheel manufacturer Weds.
Visually, the outside of his S13 contains a mishmash of products from all over. The coupe wears the face of its Japanese Silvia counterpart, but the factory bumpers and sides have been succeeded by a more stylish Chargespeed aero kit. The hood is a lightweight carbon-fiber equivalent from Seibon, and the rear spoiler is a rare carbon piece from the Japanese tuner once known as Wise Square, now known simply as Behrman. Both the front fenders and rear quarters have been massaged to make room for the aggressive wheels before the entire shell was repainted in a new coat of white.
As mentioned, Jeffrey learned quite a bit during his time with Dan from Rcrew. Of all the knowledge he gained, one of the most important ideas that he always kept with him was the idea that "cheap won't be fast and fast won't be cheap". Anybody can be fast for a few fleeting moments using cheap parts and labor, but those who are truly fast are the enthusiasts who can generate reliable power. Dependable power usually equates to quality engine parts, and in this S13, all you'll find is the best of the best. Jeffrey had never experienced SR power with his previous 240SX so he made sure to do right by his build when he finally obtained an SR20DET motor. "Tomei Power" was the theme with this engine build. The entire SR valvetrain was upgraded with Tomei pieces, including their signature Poncam camshafts, and the turbocharger used their ARMS M8270. Greddy products also come into play with their intake manifold applied and a massive front-mount intercooler resting behind the opening of Jeffrey's Chargespeed fascia. Fuel comes via 850cc SARD injectors delivered by a Walbro pump and regulated by a Tomei FPR. It all comes together to make a healthy 380 whp—a far cry from the days when he was struggling to keep his tired stock engine running in his other S13.
"I think that the most important thing that I've gathered over the years is to be patient," Jeffrey says. "I started out with nothing and made a lot of mistakes with my first S13. With patience and some great advice from friends, I was able to turn it all around and I'm very content with my current build. You can't really build a nice car with cheap parts and shortcuts so it is important to take the time to do it right."
Behind The Build
Jeffrey Lu
San Francisco, CA
Build Time.
Snowboarding, road racing, eating dessert
To build a reliable and fast vehicle
1992 Nissan 240SX
Output 380 hp/371 lb-ft of torque
Engine '93 2.0L "Red Top" SR20DET; Tomei Poncams, valvesprings, valve retainers, valveguides, rocker arm stoppers, ARMS M8270 turbocharger, fuel pressure regulator, oil cap, radiator cap; Greddy cam sprocket, intake manifold, intercooler, aluminum pulley kit, oil pan, turbo elbow; ARP head studs; A'pexi 1.1mm head gasket; Cusco motor mounts; Blitz LM air intake; Walbro 255-lph fuel pump; Circuit Sports fuel rail; SARD 850cc fuel injectors, oil catch can; Buddy Club Spec-II exhaust; Splitfire coil pack; HKS tubular exhaust manifold, turbo up-pipe, SSQV blow-off valve; Moonface Racing EX Chamber downpipe; Koyo radiator; Samco Sport cooling hoses; Mishimoto radiator fans; Nismo thermostat
Drivetrain NISMO GT Pro differential; Peak Performance transmission mounts; Drive Shaft Shop aluminum driveshaft; Exedy Hyper single carbon disc clutch; HKS shifter spring; Circuit Sports short shifter
Suspension Tein Super Drift coilovers (8k front/6k rear), inner/outer tie rods; Whiteline front sway bar, rear sway bar; Cusco Tri-Bar rear strut brace; Kazama rear upper control arms, traction rod, tension rod, rear toe rods, tension support; Nismo Power Brace; Cusco Safety21 five-point rollbar; RSR suspension bushings; Moonface racing roof bar; Circuit Sport subframe brace, reinforcement brace
Brakes Brembo Sentra Spec V front brake calipers, STI rear calipers; Hawk front/rear brake pads; Circuit Sport front/rear brake lines; OEM Z32 master cylinder; ATE Super Blue Racing fluid
Wheels/Tires front: 18x9.5 +10 Weds Sport TC105N and 215/45-18 Nitto Neogen; rear: 18x10.5 +12 Weds Sport TC105N and 235/45-18 Nitto Neogen; Project Kics neochrome lug nuts; NISMO extended wheel studs
Exterior Chargespeed aero kit; Behrman GT R32 carbon-fiber rear spoiler, carbon-fiber front grille; D-Max roof spoiler, taillights; Seibon carbon-fiber OEM-style hood, trunk; Crystal White paint; Automation LED lighting; Vision carbon-fiber side mirrors; JDM S13 Silvia front end conversion
Interior Bride GIAS carbon Kevlar seats; Takata safety harnesses; MOMO steering wheel; HKB steering hub; NISMO shift knob; Razo pedals; custom Bride gradation upholstery
Electronics Pioneer AVIC-D3 head unit; A'pexi PowerFC, AVC-R; Defi boost gauge, air/fuel meter, oil pressure gauge; Bee*R Rev Limiter
Gratitude "My family; my girlfriend, Terry; Dan from R-Crew; Alex Crispi; Jimmy Uy; Kris Yu; Mike Cruz; Alex Hsieh; Mark from Revspec; Dave Chan; Matthal; and Laudar."


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A rich tomato soup, drizzled with cream, served with brown bread. A vegan option is also available (VE).
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RYE, N.Y. — Playland, a collection of modest coasters, rides and attractions that evokes a simpler time and even holds a place in Hollywood history, is in trouble.
The 86-year-old Art Deco landmark north of New York City is the nation's largest government-run amusement park, and it's been a money loser for suburban Westchester County for years. It lost $4.3 million in 2013, attendance dropped from 1 million in 2005 to 390,000 last year, and a grand plan to revamp the park is more than a year behind schedule, caught up in politics and opposition from neighbors.
While no one is predicting that Playland will have to close anytime soon, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino — now the GOP nominee for governor — has often said the status quo can't continue. And officials note that only about 30 percent of Playland's patrons are county residents.
"Amusement parks aren't an essential service of government," said Astorino spokesman Ned McCormack. "If we can't get it to a point where it's financially viable, a day could come where it just can no longer go forward."
The county doesn't have the space, the money or the inclination to make the 280-acre Playland into a Six Flags-type thrill-seeker's dream. Its size, old-fashioned feel and lower prices make it more of a family outing, with a boardwalk, beach and picnic tables on Long Island Sound.
The park's style is evident at the end of the 1988 blockbuster comedy "Big," in the scene when Tom Hanks' character makes his wish to return to his life as a child.
One of the most beloved sections is Kiddyland, where the Red Baron airplanes and Crazy Submarine are especially tame. A long mall down the center is given over to shade trees and flowers rather than rides.
At Playland last week, patrons agreed it's a low-key excursion. But several said the slower pace was part of the charm.
"I do agree it's a little bit outdated," said Jeannette Charles, principal of St. Bartholomew's School in New York's Queens borough, which brought 170 people, mostly 8- to 13-year-olds, to the park for an end-of-the-year outing. "But for my kids, this is perfect. They're having a great time and nobody's complaining."
But Gershwin Vini, 15, of Massapequa on Long Island, said he'd like to see "a few more rides, maybe one big drop ride. For a high schooler, it's not that much fun."
Astorino, who has said he hopes to be "the man who saved Playland," asked in 2010 for proposals to reimagine the park. He announced in 2012 that he had chosen the nonprofit Sustainable Playland Inc. to turn the park into a year-round attraction as opposed to just a summertime draw.
The plan called for cutting back the area devoted to rides, while preserving such favorites as the wooden Dragon roller coaster and the old Derby Racer carousel. SPI would also add water park features to the beach and pool, create a Great Lawn overlooking the sound, and build a field house and athletic fields. The popular boardwalk — where the "Big" scene was filmed — would remain.
The sports facilities — heavily in demand in Westchester — were considered a key element for income and for expanding the park's appeal throughout the year.
Astorino said in 2012 that Westchester would get $4 million up front and would eventually receive at least $1.2 million a year. But Geoff Thompson, a spokesman for SPI, said the $4 million figure is no longer being talked about, partly because of the funds eaten up by various delays.
Astorino had hoped that the new operator would take over in 2013, and he asserted that he didn't need the approval of the full county Legislature. That resulted in two lawsuits. The Legislature also decided to hold hearings, questioning SPI and the unsuccessful bidders.
Meanwhile, some residents of Rye, where Playland is located, began objecting to the proposed field house, which is near a residential area. In response, it was reduced from 95,000 to 82,500 square feet. Then the city government, threatening a lawsuit, claimed that the city, not the county, should be the lead agency in determining the revamped park's environmental impact.
The state is expected to rule shortly on who gets to lead the review.
Meanwhile, Catherine Parker, the state legislator from Rye, withdrew her longstanding support of the Sustainable Playland plan.
"I'm not saying it's the wrong plan," she said. "But it's doomed because it's going to be tied up for years with this looming litigation."
She said the county should start over with "reasonable proposals that don't involve a field house."
"Closing Playland doesn't have to be a possibility," she said.


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More Than A Fling
This story appears in the September 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Any time that one of Mark Bonfigli's salespeople learns of a customer problem, question, comment or issue of any kind, he or she turns on a laptop, logs on to the Internet and enters the information into a special online serv-ice called Agillion Notes. The information then becomes instantly available online to any of the 11 employees of Earthcars. com Inc., a Burlington, Vermont, developer of software and Web sites for automobile dealers.
"It guarantees us immediate response to customer service issues," says the 31-year-old founder. "And that's what our company is based on."
Bonfigli's service is an example of customer relationship management (CRM), a term referring to a set of tools, practices and technology that helps people perform a number of customer-related tasks. Those tasks include collecting customer data in one place, making it widely available, iden-tifying the best customers, find-ing more like them, figuring out their needs and, eventually, turning prospects and first-time buyers into long-term, loyal customers.
In trying out CRM, Bonfigli joins Marriott, Doubleclick and an estimated 70 percent of large U.S. corporations, according to a study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Andersen Consulting. CRM is a combination of technology, training and business strategy that promises to help companies improve returns on investments in marketing and boost both sales and profits. "Customer relationship management is all about building lasting beneficial relationships with customers," explains David Tinjum, founder and CEO of Customer FX, a St. Paul, Minnesota, CRM solutions provider. Among other things, CRM promises to generate better sales leads, enable faster response to changing customer needs and make sure everyone in sales and marketing has the right information, at the right time, for every customer.
That's a promise many users say CRM delivers on with interest. "It automatically means everyone is in tune in real time," says Bonfigli. "It's an extremely powerful tool, and that's an understatement."
The Truth About CRM
The forerunners to CRM were techniques developed in the 1960s by direct-mail marketers like Sears, book clubs and publishers of newsletters, says Jay Curry, chair of Netherlands-based The Customer Marketing Institute, a CRM instruction center. "They were first to use the computer to store information about their customers for reasons other than sending out an invoice," explains Curry. "They were saying, 'Who is this customer, what do they want, and what are their interests?' "
CRM received a boost when ACT!, a contact management program for PCs, debuted in the mid-1980s, adds Tinjum. Then a series of books came out during the 1990s from marketing experts Don Peppers and Martha Rogers on "one-to-one" marketing. The rise of the Internet and its ability to collect computerized data on customers who shop and surf on the Web was the final impetus. "Without information technology, it was impossible to treat people as individuals," says Curry. "With information technology, we can."
Many types of businesses have tried CRM, but it has been absolutely embraced by e-businesses. Web surfers provide marketers with fresh, accurate data every time they fill out forms, register at sites, place orders or click on links. "It's a dream world for CRM," says Curry.Give your customers the star treatment. Take a quick Customer Service 101 class by reading "Full Service".
Most popular CRM software fit best with businesses that sell to other businesses, as opposed to consumer marketers. "The mainstream [software] players do not do a good job of working with consumers," Tinjum says. Top-selling software include ACT! and Goldmine for small businesses, SalesLogix and Pivotal for mid-range companies, and Siebel Systems for large enterprises. A growing number of electronic CRM (or eCRM) providers deliver their services over the Internet. These, including Agillion and Salesforce.com, require only that their clients have a computer, Internet access and browser software.
Small firms generally lag behind larger ones in adopting CRM. And perhaps that's not so bad. Some 70 percent of CRM efforts reportedly fail to meet expectations. One reason may be that companies tend to simply purchase software and expect CRM to result, Tinjum says.
The truth is, CRM is a multistep exercise. First, you analyze all your individual customers by sales volume and profit trends. Then you select the best and most profitable customers and identify their needs. You attempt to sell your best customers even more-and you try to find more like them. Finally, you stop serving the worst customers, those too small to be worth the trouble or those who actually cost you money.
Choosing The Right CRM Program
To get a good return on your CRM project isn't easy. Winners improve the odds by doing considerable advance research. This should involve more than comparing features of competing software packages. Focusing solely on the software is a mistake, says Tinjum, because most programs on the market can do what most businesses want. Instead, he says, concentrate on implementation. That means committing to see the project through, making customer focus part of your business strategy and following up with training.
Implementing CRM usually involves a major change in a business's culture. This can be frustrating, Curry says. CRM can give sales managers convincing reasons to persuade salespeople to call on accounts that may be difficult or intimidating but likely to produce results. CRM efforts also run aground because of conflicts, typically between the information technology and marketing departments. Data processing types may be unwilling to take on the sometimes daunting technological challenges of full-bore CRM. Marketers, on the other hand, may feel threatened by what they see as technologists encroaching on their turf.
Many other CRM programs simply run out of steam before showing results. "There are a lot of companies out there that have spent millions of dollars on systems that were never used because it was never part of their strategy," says Tinjum. "They ended up just buying software."
Smaller firms can count on budgeting anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars for each marketing person, including salespeople, who will work on the CRM system. That's just for software. Computer upgrades are often necessary. Training provided by the software vendor or so-lutions provider will also take a bite. Ongoing support for the often complex programs is costly, too.
But CRM can be well worth it. And we may be only at the beginning of the CRM boom. Tinjum says educational systems are adapting CRM ideas for student-relationship management systems, and he sees many similar evolutions ahead.
No matter whose relationships you're managing, using computers and the Internet to help do it can mean that everyone in your organization always knows just what to say or do to keep relationships on track, says Bonfigli. "That's the difference between moving at a thousand miles an hour and 90 miles an hour," he says. "Right now, it's providing us a huge advantage."
Next Step
Try Agillion's ECRM solution for 60 days free by visiting www.agillion.com.
The Customer Marketing Method by Jay Curry with Adam Curry (Free Press) shows how to implement CRM from top to bottom, in general and in detail. Download spreadsheets from the book at Jay's Web site, www.customermarketing.com.
Visit www.customerfx.com and sign up for a free e-mail newsletter, e-FXtra! CRM Newsletter, covering news, views and trends in the field.


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Published September 13, 2013
The UB Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) team was the Best Emissions Winner in the SAE 2013 Clean Snowmobile Challenge (CSC). The CSC engineering design competition challenges engineering students to reengineer an exisiting snowmobile to reduce emissions and noise and increase fuel efficiency. Their modified snowmobiles compete in a variety of events including emissions, noise, fuel economy/endurance, acceleration, handling, static display, cold start and design presentation. The UB SAE team competed in the event with a 3-cylinder turbo-diesel engine, passing the standards set for soot output by over 40%. The team's faculty advisor is MAE Adjunct Assistant Professor Edward M. Kasprzak.


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Hard Rock New Orleans unveils new look
Restaurant reopens on Bourbon Street
Hard Rock Cafe New Orleans began the new year in a new location with a new elaborate collection of memorabilia.
The restaurant closed at its previous location on North Peters Street and opened in a new spot at the corner of Bourbon and Iberville streets the very next day, featuring a new design, a stage for live performances and more than 100 pieces of memorabilia from local artists, modern superstars and legendary musicians.
Jeff Nolan, a Hard Rock International music and memorabilia historian, said his team was overwhelmed with the task of putting a collection together for New Orleans because of the city's rich musical legacy.
"(The team) outdid themselves with the memorabilia selections for this cafe. We've put in over 100 amazing pieces," said Nolan.
One section spotlights elaborate costumes worn by the likes of Aallen Toussaint, Big Chief Jolly of the Wild Tchopitoulas and Little Richard, whose outfit still has the original sweat and make-up stains.
"Oh yeah, (he has) thick pancake makeup. (He's) an amazing performer, and the outfit really shows how much he puts into his art," Nolan said.
Another piece in the collection, which has a little less flare, is an outfit worn by Louisiana native Britney Spears during her 1999 tour.
"It's so much less elaborate than what she began to wear when she became a superstar. It's really sort of homemade," Nolan said.
The Voodoo room features a collection by artists who've all performed Voodoo Fest.
"We've got Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Better Than Ezra, so it's not just old classic rock, we've got quite a wide net," Nolan said.
It's two iconic musical cultures merging for the ultimate musical mash up.
The general manager said they plan to bring in local and regional bands and artists to perform several nights a week.


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|Rainmaker Matt Ryan
|Written by David S. Lewis
The Montana Pioneer
Montana 's farmers and ranchers pay close attention to the weather. During the growing season, rain, or lack of it, is always on their minds. So when the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasted a drought for the state this past summer, with worse conditions for northeastern Montana, Phyllis and Jim Furman, who farm spring wheat near Glasgow, weren't exactly delighted with the news.
Strangely, though, the whole northeast section of the state, in spite of NOAA's forecast, experienced above average rainfall – unlike most of the rest of the state.
And the Furmans believe they know why.
With twenty other farmers and ranchers near Glasgow , they hired a rainmaker.
Phyllis was no stranger to the concept of rainmaking, having read Wilhelm Reich, the controversial scientist of the 40s and 50s. Reich, a close student as a young man of Sigmund Freud, had identified what he claimed was a mysterious energy in the human body, and later professed that that energy was present everywhere, in everything. He called it orgone energy, and later discovered the ability to make rain, some say, using the same principles of orgone energy.
With some knowledge of Reich's discoveries, in 1990 the Furmans hired Matt Ryan and his colleague Jim DeMeo of the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab in Ashland , Oregon . Ryan and DeMeo traveled to Montana that year, but it was a hurried effort, Phyllis told the Pioneer. DeMeo had to leave for Paris . The two of them wouldn't be able to complete the work. With the constraints in mind, the Furmans hired the duo anyway. And they made it rain, Phyllis says, only more of it fell further west in the dry lands of North Dakota .
That first effort, however imperfect, sold the Furmans on DeMeo and Ryan. And when a high pressure dome sat over the state in 1992, and again in 1993, they called Ryan. And he responded, both times.
And both times it rained.
They called Ryan again in 1998, and again it rained.
So when they heard that NOAA had forecasted a severe drought for northeastern Montana for the summer of 2000, they naturally turned to Matt Ryan once more. And naturally, Phyllis Furman told us, Ryan brought the rain.
The Evidence
In 1992 from May 23 through June 7, Ryan traveled the Northwest during severe and persistent drought conditions doing what he calls "rainmaking operations." The areas Ryan worked at experienced average to above-average rainfall coincidental with his efforts, despite the encompassing drought, he told us. And Ryan claims that a "persistence effect" develops in the wake of his rainmaking, causing rainfall to occur for weeks and months afterward. Yet, due to eager financial resources, Ryan was not able to spend as much times as he would have liked making rain in '92. "Had I been able to repeat the operations," he told us, "we could have turned the whole Northwest around that summer."
This year, 2000, Ryan worked on behalf of the Furmans and their group again, who paid him $10,000 to make rain, a sum Phyllis Furman considers small compared to the benefits. Ryan began on May 30 and completed his operations June 9. And unless we are to believe in extraordinary coincidences, considering NOAA's drought forecast. Ryan seems, at least, to have been successful again. Crop and weather reports, provided by the Montana Agricultural Statistics Service, show above-average rainfall in the supposedly drought-stricken northeast region for the weeks immediately following Ryan's "rainmaking operations."
For the week ending June 10, 2000, the report states: "Precipitation around the state was generally light with the exception of areas in the northeast received 1.5 to 2 inches of rain during the week." This, in an area that was supposed to experience more severe drought than the rest of the state. Statistics for the following week also show significantly higher rainfall in the northeast region, a trend that continued through July.
On Wednesday, June 14, the Great Falls Tribune reported, in a story about drought conditions in Montana : "Snowpack is all but gone from the mountains, spring rains are lacking, rivers and streams are running shallow, some reservoirs are already short of water, fire danger is rising, and crops and pastures are doing poorly . . ."
Peggy Stringer of the Montana Agricultural Statistics Service was then quoted as saying, "This is somber meeting of the Drought Advisory Committee . . ."
The Tribune then quotes Ken Mielke of the National Weather Service. "Statewide," Mielke said, " Glasgow (in the northeast region) is the only reporting station with above-normal precipitation."
And by the end of July, out of 65 reporting station in Montana , only 13 reported average to above-average precipitation – 10 of those 13 stations were in the northeast region where Ryan had done his rainmaking. Sadly, the majority of the stations throughout the state reported significantly lower precipitation than the average, levels that correspond to crop failure.
Ryan claims he has a similar record of success from California to New York State . It's not surprising that Phyllis Furman then, when asked if Ryan can make rain, says "Absolutely."
What's Goig On?
Rainmaking is, of course, the stuff of legends and shamans. No one is supposed to be able to make rain, not in the world of modern materialistic science. DeMeo, an academic who tried to go mainstream with his weather work, was ultimately denied the opportunity to obtain validation from the scientific community even though he successfully proved out his master's thesis on the subject. And Wilhelm Reich, considered very controversial by most of the scientific world, hardly lends credibility to the rainmaking craft, in the view of the scientific establishment.
But Phyllis Furman, along with Ryan, liken rainmaking to other natural phenomena, lightning and dowsing. Using long metal tubes and certain water sources (natural springs, for instance), Ryan says water in the earth can attract water in the air, the same way a charge in the ground attracts a charge in the sky, causing lightning. Then there's the dowser, or water witcher, used commonly in Montana to discover underground water for wells, and even minerals for mining operations. Water produces energy currents, Furman explained, that the dowser detects, and those energy currents can be directed.
Ryan's rainmaking method, while closely guarded, involves extremely simple technology, long pieces of metal pipe that are, as far as we can tell, inserted in water like antennae and directed in such a way, according to Ryan, that he can guide and direct streams of energy in the atmosphere that move weather patterns. This is, of course, scientifically unproven. It is, more accurately, so incredible to mechanistic scientists that it is brusquely dismissed along with Wilhelm Reich and theories about orgone energy.
Rainmaking, though, was hardly dismissed by another prominent proponent of the craft, a Chippewa Ojibwa named Sun Bear. Living near Spokane , Washington at the time, Sun Bear's writings inspired Ryan to travel from his native New York to Washington state, and then, over many years, to take up rainmaking. Describing Sun Bear as a visionary mystic, Ryan says, "We were close . . . over time he became like my father, my brother and my friend."
Within six months of meeting Sun Bear, Ryan met Jerome Eden in northern Idaho . Eden had studied with the original people around Wilhelm Reich and kept a rainmaking device called a "cloudbuster" in a meadow on his land. Ryan ended up spending four years with Eden , studying and replicating Reich's scientific findings and learning and practicing the craft of "cloudbusting."
It was through Sun Bear, though, that Ryan learned rainmaking as a mystic art. Sun Bear, Ryan says, was a rainmaker of the old school, born in 1929 and trained by Native American elders. But Sun Bear didn't exactly "make rain" Ryan explains. It would be more accurate to say the rain followed him, that he could "call it."
Ryan then speaks of the forces of nature "that I realize I'm a part of, that move around and within us all the time."
"When you get right down to it, we're all built out of the earth, every molecule in our bodies – so by birthright we are intimately related to her, to all aspects of Nature. I've just increased that relationship by doing nothing more than paying attention to it, just like I pay attention to my friends or my co-workers or my wife."
Ryan spoke of his communion with Nature as a living being, likening it to seeing faces in the clouds, then finding that those faces are looking back at him, communicating a conscious presence.
"If there's one thing we've lost in our materialistic, scientific society, it's the awareness of Nature . . . not just we being aware of Nature, but being aware that Nature is watching back."
Te Jet Stream
To a rainmaker, rain is not simply water driven by wind; it is the precipitation of subtle energy, the same energy detected by dowsers.
"We now know that we can influence weather fronts, get them to move in patterns that they're not in at the moment. It's not so much that you can turn Arizona into a lush, tropical land overnight, but that if Montana, or the Northwest is in a drought, it's in a drought for a number of reasons and one of them is because the jet stream, which steers all the weather around the planet, is either running too far north up into Canada, or too far south into California, for instance. So with respect to Montana in this season, the jet is out of its normal pattern."
"The jet stream is an orgone energy stream moving around the planet. It has a tremendous amount of potential energy in it."
Conventional scientists, Ryan says, as opposed to scientists like Reich, only talk about the jet steam in terms of wind – missing the inherent energetic phenomenon.
"They say winds result because the sun heats the earth unevenly, and so forth," Ryan said. "And they're partly right, of course. But there's a tremendous amount of subtle energy associated with the jet streams that they're not accounting for, or even aware of. Part of my craft is working with that, gently."
Montana in Flames
By August of 2000, Montana was in flames, along with much of the West. Raging fires had already destroyed homes and forests hear Helena and in other parts of the state. The smoke from those fires, including blazes that threatened park County, choked the sky for weeks, dropping thin coating of ash clearly visible on car windshields in Livingston and Bozeman . Matt Ryan's way is that he does not intervene unless asked, he told us. He does not solicit, and he considers his work "healing," not a commercial enterprise. And so he did not intervene in Montana , nor anywhere else in the West, until a call came in from a physician, a former student of his in the Helena area, where the fire had singed the hillsides surrounding Canyon Ferry Lake , causing severe damage to houses and property.
And the Rains Came
In this case, Ryan did not travel to the area to bring relief. Instead, he worked with DeMeo from a remote site, influencing the Northwest's weather patterns from his home in Mt. Shasta , California . Ryan began working August 6 and finished September 3 in a series of three operations.
In the meantime, federal officials stated that they did not expect the Montana wildfires to be out until the end of October or early November, when the cooler weather and fall rains begin. That assessment was based largely on forecasts and advice from the National Weather Service, which works closely with the forest service during wildfire season. No one expected rain early. It wasn't supposed to happen, especially in the midst of the severe drought.
But the rains came to the Helena area at the end of August and in early September, contrary to the forecasts, and then spread out from there with snow following in mid September that virtually doused the last remnants of the fires.
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Thank you again to those who participated in an enlightening manner on the market threads while I was away! While I'm back for today, I am only partially up to speed and will be gone again off and on the rest of this week. Next week the markets should get my full attention.
Equity futures are lower this morning and they have broken my rising wedges on the futures – but not yet on the day only charts. It is possible that they simply broaden and morph into an up channel, we will have to watch the action to see. A rising wedge should break down fairly hard if it's truly in play, if we move sideways then there may be another wave higher coming. Below is a snapshot of the rising wedges as depicted on a 15 minute chart, DOW on the left, S&P on the right:
The dollar is flat, bonds are down slightly, oil and gold are both flat after very large down moves yesterday.
The economic data continues to deteriorate – I can't recall a truly positive piece of news over the past month or so and that certainly did not change while I was away. The ECRI has now fallen more than 10% and is a good indication that another recession will be recognized.
This morning the (worthless) MBA Purchase Index rose 2% over the prior week. The Refinancing index fell 5.9%, pushing the composite index down 4.4%. Housing remains in the gutter and will remain so for quite some time. I think it's interesting to note that the media is reporting home ownership has fallen to 11 year lows (duh), and in unrelated pieces that renting is a growing trend (duh). This trend will reverse, but we are not close to that point yet as renting is still financially favorable to owning in most areas and circumstances.
Durable Goods Orders fell another 1.0% for the month of June, this follows a 1.1% drop in May. The Consensus was expecting a rise to a positive 1%, so they missed completely in the wrong direction. The year over year numbers are higher, but keep in mind that comparisons to that time frame are very easy and that there was much stimulus between then and now – much of which is no longer with us. Here's Econoday:
The manufacturing sector sputtered in June, according to new durables orders. New factory orders for durable goods in June fell 1.0 percent, following a 0.8 percent drop the month before. The June numbers fell well short of market expectations for a 1.0 percent boost.
The June decline was led by the transportation component. Excluding transportation, new durables orders slipped 0.6 percent, following a 1.2 percent gain in June. Outside of transportation, major components were mixed, albeit net negative. Other than the fact that markets were disappointed that Boeing orders did not turn overall durables positive, the monthly trend is still upward, although volatile.
For the second month in a row, the big negative was the transportation component which fell 2.4 percent in June, following a 6.6 percent drop in May. Nondefense aircraft decreased 25.6 percent after falling 30.2 percent in May. Defense aircraft rebounded 6.5 percent. Motor vehicles continued a recent string of gains, rising 2.5 percent in June.
Other components were mixed. Declines were seen in primary metals, machinery, computers & electronics, and in "all other." Components gaining were fabricated metals and electrical equipment.
Nondefense capital goods orders excluding aircraft in June rose 0.6 percent, following a 4.6 percent spike the month before. Shipments for this category edged up 0.2 percent in June, following a 1.5 percent rise in May.
Year-on-year, overall new orders for durable goods in June were up 15.9 percent, compared to 15.2 percent in May. Excluding transportation, new durables orders came in at up 15.0 percent, compared to 17.8 percent the prior month.
On the news, equity futures slipped and Treasury yields edged down.
Turning to the charts, on the 3 month SPX chart below you can clearly see the a,b,c nature of the rally off the July 1 low. Wave c is now proportional to wave a time wise, but it is weaker distance wise. This tells me that the ultra bullish count some EW people are looking at is incorrect. If they were correct, then this would be a wave 3 higher which should be getting stronger on the next level of 3 – it's not, it's getting weaker with price and it's on lower volume. As I predicted, the SPX 1115 area has acted as resistance for now – it is a 50% retrace level of the decline since April and has significant resistance in this area. Again, it could be that we are simply basing for another push higher:
The daily RSI bullish divergence that was in place is almost washed out at this point and there is now a fairly significant short term bearish divergence in place on the shorter timeframes.
What is bullish is that both the Transports and Industrials made new closing highs above their June highs. This is a secondary DOW Theory buy signal. A primary signal would only come by exceeding a primary high, that would be exceeding the April mark. Still, this should not be ignored as it gives the bulls fuel and fodder to believe that the trend has changed. That's what wave 2s do, they are meant to fool.
Long term bonds have clearly broken their uptrend, but both TLT and the TNX look like they are running into support/ resistance.
The VIX broke support beneath the 200dma, but I note is back above it this morning:
Both the Transports and the RUT produced closes above the upper Bollinger Band and then yesterday closed beneath them. Those are sell indications, but prices need to be watched to ensure that they don't close back above them – in other words, follow-through is required. Below is a daily of chart of the Transports showing this:
Overall I'm still not believing the bullish case and I'm certainly not buying the supposed massively higher earnings either. What I see are financial companies marking their garbage to model and that is producing fluff across the spectrum. Start marking assets to market and then we'll see what is truly real in the market – until then it's all simply games and illusion.


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