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2013 Commencement Speech - Julie Bradshaw
May. 15, 2013
Good morning. I would first like to acknowledge the Communication Arts, Reading, Early
Childhood Education and Teaching English as a Second Language Department for asking
me to speak today. I can think of no higher honor than to be asked by this esteemed
faculty, so thank you.
Langston Hughes is one of the most influential poets of American culture. In one of his poems, "Mother to Son," the speaker is talking to her son about challenges and how life is "no crystal stair." Today, I am here to give you my own advice. Not on life but on education, that like the poem states is full of tacks, splinters, and boards torn up, but still worth it in the end. I am not yet a mother, but I have had almost 800 children. They are my students.
I have been a high school Communication Arts teacher in the St. Louis city public schools for the past seven years. My school looks like a large factory. It is nestled in the heart of a commercial district boasting cheese and chocolate among other products with train tracks and highway 44 nearby.
However, if you would step into my classroom you would see a world that is far from the institutionalized notions you may have. It is a world that is full of adolescent ways and wonder. This year I have approximately 90 students and have earned their respect because many come from a world where respect is not automatically given but proven on a daily basis. I have students that are willing to learn literary terms like hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and personification by role playing, discussing, and engaging in simple laughter. They are willing to understand Shakespeare's archaic language even if it is still called "English." I have students that can see and feel the importance of rhyme and diction in a society that has largely forgotten about poetry.
My classroom is not always the idyllic crystal staircase that I describe. There are moments I am sitting in my teacher's desk at the end of the day, slumped down, feeling defeated and depleted. And perhaps this is what gets me to the heart of my message today: Education is the most challenging profession that you can enter. In fact, if you consider this as a profession, think again because I find it to really be a vocation. The amount of dedication and conviction necessary for learners to succeed against the mounds of statistics and data trying to prove the educator wrong seems sometimes insurmountable. Everyone from politicians to dictatorships think that they know the solution to our children's needs. Does this mean that you should give up? No. As an educator, you realize the importance of compromise without sacrificing your standards. Every day I see the necessity of what my administration and state tells me, but I am the one that ultimately make the decision for my students. And as the character Atticus from To Kill a Mockingbird states, I "see it through no matter what."
If there is one thing Webster has taught me, it is how to be an innovator of intellect when educating. From Folklore to Reading and Writing as a Cognitive Process, I am now equipped to come up with new ways to educate and inspire. Education may be considered a global problem but it will always have a local solution. It is up to us as educators to constantly make sure that we continue to learn, research, and push ourselves to find new ways to better understand and help our young people. That is what brought me to Webster two years ago, and what propels me as a learner to further my education. Daily 90 individuals teach me that I will always be the eternal learner.
In the meantime, every class I stand before my students, hoping that I am turning them into future leaders, that I am inspiring them to create global awareness. And that I am educating them not only to appreciate Romeo and Juliet, or to understand the importance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but to appreciate the humility of life and all of its complexities. Ultimately, I strive to teach them how to deal with life's predicaments in a rational and insightful way.
We gather here represented by all nationalities and ethnicities, but we have all chosen, and somehow been chosen, to pursue the journey of education. This journey's end goal is to help create advanced citizens for a worldwide setting. It is by far the hardest vocation we will ever have, but it is also the most rewarding. We recognize that there are splinters and cracks along the way. That we may think we have reached the top of the staircase but really it is just a landing that continues on. But we keep climbing in our calling because we realize that education is not the unachievable crystal staircase but rather an ongoing step forward towards a very important end.


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The challenge for the new government at the Centre in May next year is to embrace supply side reforms as these measures hold the key to future economic outlook of India, says a report by Societe Generale.
According to the French banking major, in India, the supply side has continuously lagged the demand side due to weak programme and implementation of structural reforms.
"The economic reforms that were ushered in during 1991 have outlived their utility as catalysts for growth," Societe Generale said in a research note adding that "the country now needs to embark on the next round of reform measures to remove the structural constraints that impact growth".
India's supply side constraints that require immediate attention include boosting power supply and rationalising power tariffs; optimising the use of natural resources; streamlining administrative procedures; fiscal consolidation and reduction of policy uncertainty to boost investment.
According to the global financial services major, corruption in the process of distribution of rights to natural resources and policy paralysis are "conspiring" to hold back the Indian economy at a time when the increasing supply side constraints threaten to reduce growth potential.
As a result the Reserve Bank of India is facing a very "difficult balancing act" of managing growth, inflation and preventing a collapse of the rupee.
"We expect further rate hikes," Societe Generale said adding that "2014 will see the election of a new government and failure to adopt structural reform quickly will add to the pressure on the RBI in a manner that we believe is ultimately unsustainable".
India's monetary policy continues to remain hawkish as RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan fights a lone battle to get the economy back on track while the government "fails to walk thetalk. A classic case of Nero fiddling while Rome is burning," the report said.
The report further said that though GDP growth may have bottomed out and inflation may have peaked, but the stress is visible.
"The economy will continue to muddle through for the rest of the year even as an elevated level of inflation remains a concern," it said.

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Gambling in the United States is more popular than ever before-but your house is the one thing you don't want to bet.
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In the high-priced, low interest rate housing boom of the past several years, many homebuyers signed up for interest-only loans, payment option adjustable rate mortgages and piggybacks. In doing so, they generally bet on two things: that they would be able to refinance their way out from under future payments they might not be able to afford and that home prices would continue to go up and they would be able to sell later for a profit.
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Opera. Annalena Persson sings Tosca in this revival premiere of Puccini's beloved love-triangle drama – filled with love, jealousy, politics, murder and beautiful music.
Achingly beautiful melodies
"An incomparably emotional and powerful Tosca." DN 2011
"Deeply moved, I am leaving the auditorium to book a new ticket." Tidskriften OPERA 2011
Singer Floria Tosca is in love with idealistic artist Mario Cavaradossi. He is arrested by the ruthless chief of police, Scarpia – who desires Tosca. Unintentionally, she becomes the hub around which the men's destructive power struggle revolves.
Puccini's action-filled love-triangle drama is adorned with a chain of arias, from Tosca's entreaty Vissi d'arte to Cavaradossi's emotional knockout E lucevan le stelle. Tosca is a red-hot opera, filled to the brim with love, jealousy, politics, murder, greed, passion and a longing to be free. All captured within achingly beautiful Puccini melodies. Italian-American director Lorenzo Mariani has set his Tosca in Italy in the 1930s, between the two world wars. We find ourselves in a dark, dramatic time imbued with oppression and suspicion. The stage design, costume and interpretation contain references to the Hollywood film noir era. The production, which premiered in autumn 2011, had an enthusiastic reception from critics and audience alike.
This time, Tosca is interpreted by the house's own dramatic soprano, Annalena Persson. Three of the performances - May 4, 9 and 15 - Carolina Sandgren sings Tosca och Marco Stella Scarpia. Pier Giorgio Morandi is responsible for ensuring that the music is given the right intensive Italian touch.
Watch a video from Tosca 2011
Watch an interview with director Lorenzo Mariani.
The history behind Puccini's Tosca.
The original première of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca took place in Rome on January 14, 1900 and the drama outside almost rivalled that played out on stage. The political scene in Rome was as volatile as at the time that Tosca was set - exactly 100 years previously. Italy had been united, but King Umberto I had been the subject of several failed assassination attempts. A group of supporters of Puccini's competitor Leoncavallo had decided to sabotage the première and an anonymous letter threatening to set off a bomb in the salon was received by the theatre. As the queen was to attend the première, it was feared that someone might attempt to assassinate her.
Rumours that the opera included the murder of a corrupt civil servant loyal to the king (Scarpia) had spread and the new opera was seen as dangerously subversive. The police performed thorough searches of all audience members outside the theatre entrances, which led to long delays. Those not allowed to enter created a ruckus that spread to the audience seated in the salon during the start of the first act. The conductor finally decided to stop the music and close the curtains. The national anthem was played and when the audience had calmed down the people waiting outside could be admitted and the performance recommenced from the beginning. The atmosphere was calm from then on and the opera received standing ovations. A few months later, King Umberto was murdered in a successful assassination attempt.
A melodrama becomes opera
Puccini found the original inspiration for his new opera 11 years earlier, when he saw Sarah Bernhardt perform the exciting melodrama Tosca, by Frenchman Victorien Sardou, in Milan. Sardou was a very popular dramatist who wrote many well-composed dramas with a focus on the thrill of the unfolding events rather than an attempt to delve deeply into the characters portrayed on stage. Several of them were written directly for the iconic Bernhardt and more than half of them have inspired operas. Despite the fact that Puccini didn't know a word of French (the only words he understood was Bernhardt hissing "Malhereux! Malheureux!" after the murder of Scarpia) he was entranced by the charged atmosphere and said that it formed an excellent basis for creating an opera. However, other events delayed its creation; Puccini had his breakthrough with Manon Lescaut in 1893 and his success continued with La Bohème in 1896. The publishing company Ricordi had offered composer Alberto Franchetti the rights to compose the music for Sardou's drama and even the ageing Verdi had indicated an interest provided he were to be allowed to change the last act. Puccini's interest was finally rekindled and Franchetti was persuaded to release the rights to compose the music, for which he was secretly relieved.
Librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, who had previously cooperated on Manon Lescaut and La Bohème, were asked to provide the libretto. As usual Illica constructed the course of events and the scenes, while Giacosa, who was the more poetic of the two, constructed the verse and dialogs. Sardou was also involved in the project, which was not without its difficulties. Puccini, who was a true theatre man, didn't want dialogues with no clear endings or any actual arias, but instead wanted the events to unfold quickly and effectively. Giacosa was disappointed as he couldn't fulfill his poetic leanings, and Illica wanted to end the opera with a mad scene for Tosca. Puccini's will proved the strongest the majority of the time. As an Italian, he was also disappointed in Sardou's limited geographical and historical knowledge of Rome - he is said to have exclaimed that "he'd probably change the location of the Tiber if he could", when Sardou insisted that Tosca was to jump into the river from Castel Sant'Angelo. Puccini was extremely diligent in ensuring that both text and music were correct in regards to locality. He visited Rome to listen to all its church bells at dawn - a sound which is replicated exactly in the music at the start of the third act. Puccini also located a poem in Roman dialect for the shepherd boy to sing in the same act and wrote to the Church to ask them to send something suitable fro the prayers of the first act. He threatened to convert to Protestantism if they didn't obey his demand.
Revolutionary motif
The historical background to the events of Tosca is rather complicated. In the year of 1800, Italy was still divided into a number of smaller states, most of which were occupied by the Habsburg Empire (the Austro-Hungarian Empire). The French Revolution provided renewed inspiration for the freedom fighters, and in 1798 the French conquered the church-state of Rome and created a republic, governed by consul Cesare Angelotti. However, after a short period they were forced into retreat by the army of Naples, and Rome was returned to the Pope. In 1800 Napoleon won the Battle of Marengo and reconquered the northern parts of Italy - an event included in the second act of the opera where Cavarodossi breaks into jubilant song as he's notified of it, just before being executed. Intellectuals and artists saw Napoleon as liberating the country from the terror of the dictatorships and as aiding the uniting of Italy, whereas those loyal to the Pope and King,
such as Scarpia, tried to keep the Austro-Hungarian dominance and protect the Kingdom of Naples by all means. Between these two extremes we find Tosca, a singer loyal to the King who has fallen in love with the freedom fighter Cavaradossi.
All the main characters are inspired by real individuals: Floria Tosca was a soprano at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, educated by the composer Cimarosa and with a past as a shepherdess and nun. The artist Louis Cavaradossi was the son of a philosopher and a student of the revolutionary painter Jacques-Louis David. Vitellio Scarpia's work in removing any dissidents in his capacity of royalist Head of Police led to the creation of his nickname: the Hangman of Rome.
Puccini's women
As in all of Puccini's operas there is a woman at the centre of Tosca. Puccini spent his whole childhood surrounded by women and hence had no difficulties in placing himself in their situation. He loved all women and is rumoured to have had an increasing amount of affairs as he became ever more famous, much to the annoyance of his wife Elvira. Puccini also carried a torch for all his opera heroines, from Mimì via Tosca, Butterfly and Sister Angelica to the slave Liù in Turandot. In the operas they are portrayed with great love and tenderness, but the love reaches a new degree as they are exposed to torture, whether physical or mental. They are often placed in a metaphorical vice, the screws of which are pulled ever tighter as the opera proceeds. The love for them is at its strongest when flavoured with a certain measurement of sadism, which also allows Puccini to tug at the heartstrings of the audience.
In most of his operas, there is a counterpart to the heroine, someone who harasses and tortures her, placing her in the awful situations that make us all cry over her fate. In Tosca, this role is of course played by Scarpia, but there are also female counterparts such as Sister Angelica or the cruel Princess Turandot. A third part is played by the tenor, who loves the heroine. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly forms an interesting exception as he is transformed from loving partner to being the man who utterly destroys the heroine in the second act.
In Tosca, we meet the mature Puccini at the height of his creative abilities as his music inexorably follows and underlines the dramatic events on stage. In terms of style, Puccini was closely linked to the Verismo movement, an Italian equivalent to the Naturalism movement, where genuinely human characters peopled the stage, committing acts of ever-escalating violence that ended in death. In Tosca, the ingredients used are particularly powerful: murder, execution, torture, rape, jealousy, sexual extortion, suicide - just to mention a few.
Puccini punctuates the flow of the music, which is also very much inspired by the French Impressionist movement, with a number of melodic themes associated with a person or event. All characters (Tosca, Cavaradossi, Scarpia, Angelotti, the Sacristan, Spoletta) have their own musical motifs that are easily recognised.
Unlike Wagner, Puccini doesn't change these to fit the rest of the music as the events of the opera unfold; instead they remain pretty much the same throughout the entire opera. Before the curtains have even opened, Scarpia's pompous motif can be heard from the orchestra, a bold succession of chords that are extremely important throughout the opera. Even when Scarpia is not on stage, his fateful impact on events is conveyed through the music. It is followed by Angelotti's nervous and stressed escape motif, the Sacristan's comically jerky rising chords and so on.
In order to masterfully create atmosphere, Puccini liked to work with contrasts: a dramatic scene becomes stronger if it is contrasted with something idyllic or comical. Examples include the shepherd boy's carefree song and Cavaradossi's deep fear of death ahead of his execution; and the cantata that Tosca sings off-stage in the second act, which serves to increase the tension of the conversation between Scarpia and Cavaradossi to unbearable levels.
A great role for a great soprano
At the turbulent première in Rome, Tosca was sung by Romanian soprano Hariclea Darclée, who was at the height of a decade-long career as a dramatic soprano. The young Enrico Caruso had hoped to be chosen for the role of Cavaradossi, but it was instead awarded to the more experienced Emilio de Marchi. Baritone Eugenio Giraldoni sang Scarpia. The production was directed by Puccini's publisher Tito Ricordi. The opera became a reasonable success, considering the circumstances, even though Puccini was used to longer ovations after his success with Manon Lescaut and La Bohème. The expectations of any work by Puccini were now much higher and the opera received mixed reviews, with most critics reserving judgement. However, it was soon clear that the opera had been a success. Within two months, Tosca had been performed in Turin and at La Scala (conducted by Toscanini) and within the year it was performed in London, Constantinople, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid.
Tosca's grand singing role soon attracted the top singers, who took great interest in infusing the role with tense drama. One of these singers was Maria Jeritza, who during a rehearsal watched by Puccini fell just before Tosca's prayer. She sang the aria lying down, which the composer found to be an excellent way to further emphasise the vulnerability of the heroine. It soon became customary to perform it in this exact manner. Of the long line of interpreters such as Claudia Muzio, Zinka Milanov, Renata Tebaldi, Magda Olivero, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price and Montserrat Caballé, Maria Callas deserves a special mention. At first, Maria wanted to get rid of Tosca's prayer (!) as she believed it interrupted the dramatic flow. She was persuaded otherwise and her performance in London alongside Tito Gobbi's Scarpia is seen as one of the most suspenseful in the history of opera. Luckily, the second act was preserved on film for us all to enjoy, and to serve as the standard that subsequent performers should aim for.
Tosca was first performed in Sweden in 1904 at the Royal Swedish Opera, with Anna Oscàr singing the title role. It has been performed at all Swedish opera houses: Göteborg, Malmö, Karlstad and Umeå; and at Folkoperan in Stockholm. The first performance in Göteborg was in 1912, with a guest performance from the Royal Swedish Opera, and Magna Lykseth performing the title role. It was followed by a further eight Tosca productions in Göteborg. The production performed at Stora Teatern in 1957 received a lot of attention as it was placed in Mussolini's Italy and temporal movements were relatively unusual at the time. Coincidentally and luckily, the team in charge of the new production at the Göteborg Opera have chosen the exact same time period.
Göran Gademan


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Going through some more old photos, I stumbled upon this graduation portrait. I cannot remember who orchestrated this, but I am glad we did it. Thank goodness for great friends. I loved high school and am happy to report this seems to capture some of that feeling. I graduated in 1997 as did a number of these friends, but not all of us in the photo.
I could go through on where all these individuals have ended up but it would likely be outdated within a few months. Plus, some might want to keep some of their information more private. So I won't write more.


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Multiple graded stakes winner Sidney's Candy will make his first start since the Kentucky Derby on May 1 when he takes on four other 3-year-olds in the $200,000 Swaps Stakes Saturday at Hollywood Park.
The Swaps, which is run at 1 1/8 miles over Cushion Track, is one of a pair of Grade II races on Saturday. The other is the $150,000 A Gleam Handicap for older fillies and mares at seven furlongs.
A homebred owned by the Craig Family Trust and trained by John Sadler, Sidney's Candy will be seeking his fifth win in eight starts and his fourth graded stakes victory of 2010.
Earlier in the year at Santa Anita, Sidney's Candy, who finished 17th in the Kentucky Derby after pressing the quick early pace, won, in succession, the San Vicente, San Felipe and Santa Anita Derby.
Joe Talamo, who was third aboard Scorewithcater in the 2009 Swaps, will ride Sidney's Candy, who has earned $673,560. This will be the first start for the chestnut at Hollywood Park.
Skipshot, who finished second in the Affirmed Handicap on June 19. He was a half-length behind favored Golden Itiz, who is skipping the Swaps after he failed to work to the satisfaction of trainer Ron Ellis.
Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer for owner Olympia Star Inc., Skipshot, a son of Skip Away and the Sunny's Halo mare Heavenly Note, has won three of nine. The $120,000 2-year-old purchase has earned $93,030.
In his only other attempt at nine furlongs, he was fifth in the Santa Anita Derby. Skipshot finished 7 ¾ lengths behind Sidney's Candy that afternoon.
Sadler and the Craig Family Trust is also scheduled to run Twirling Candy and he will be coupled in the wagering with Sidney's Candy.
A son of Candy Ride and the Chester House mare House Of Danzing, Twirling Candy is undefeated in two starts. However, he has yet to run beyond seven furlongs.
In his 3-year-old debut, Twirling Candy won an optional claimer by 7 ¾ lengths on May 29, completing the 6 ½ furlongs in a rapid 1:15:08.
Alphie's Bet will be looking for his second stakes win of the meet at the distance for owner-breeders Peter O. Johnson Sr. and Teresa McWilliams and trainer Alexis Barba.
The Tribal Rule colt out of the Candi's Gold mare Miss Alphie won the Snow Chief at 1 1/8 miles on April 24, beating Working Capital and six other California breds in the main event on California Gold Rush Day on April 24.
Most recently, Alphie's Bet was third in the Affirmed, finishing one length behind Golden Itiz. He has won three of nine and earned $273,320. He owns another win at nine furlongs, having captured the Sham Stakes on March 6 at Santa Anita.
Completing the field is Summer Movie, who was fourth in the Affirmed. A gray son of Holy Bull out of the Summer Squall mare Crazy Summer Fling, Summer Movie has won two of six – both on turf – for owner George Krikorian and trainer Art Sherman. He has earned $59,000.
From the inside out, here's the field for the 38th Swaps Stakes: Alphie's Bet, Mike Smith rides, 120 pounds; Summer Movie, Martin Garcia, 112; Sidney's Candy, Joe Talamo, 122; Skipshot, Joel Rosario, 114 and Twirling Candy, Victor Espinoza, 112.
In the A Gleam, Sadler will try to make some history when he sends out Emmy Darling against five opponents.
Sadler would become the first trainer to win the race, which will be run for the 56th time Saturday, three years in a row. He would also tie Clyde Turk, Bobby Frankel and Laz Barrera for most A Gleam victories with three. Sadler has won the last two years with Dearest Trickski and Evita Argentina.
Owned by Ike and Dawn Thrash, Emmy Darling, a 4-year-old Graeme Hall filly and the Colonial Affair mare Dance Delight, returns to California after finishing off the board in the Winning Colors, a Grade III, on May 31 at Churchill Downs.
Purchased as a 2-year-old for $260,000 at the Ocala March Sale in Florida in 2008, Emmy Darling will be aiming for her second stakes win at Hollywood Park.
In her second career start on June 28, 2008, Emmy Darling won the ungraded Landaluce. She is 4-for-18 with earnings of $233,039.
After finishing far behind Rachel Alexandra in the Fleur de Lis on June 12 at Churchill Downs, Made For Magic returns to the scene of her most significant win.
Trained by A C Avila for owners Mike Lamb and L-Bo Racing, the 5-year-old Cape Canaveral mare and the Exploit mare Only Seventeen won the Milady, a Grade II, at nearly 10-1 on May 16.
Claimed for $16,000 by her current connections last August at Golden Gate, Made For Magic has since won four of 15. Overall, she has taken eight of 34 while banking $304,404.
Will O Way, who finished fourth of sixth in the Vanity on June 13, will cut back in distance for owners Edward Taylor and David and Holly Wilson and trainer Vladimir Cerin. The 4-year-old daughter of Broken Vow and the Woodman mare Willow Woodman has won three of 14. Her bankroll stands at $192,500. She is winless in four races at seven furlongs.
Free Flying Soul will be looking for her third win at Hollywood Park, but her first in a graded stakes. Previously, she has won the Winter and the Desert Stormer for owner Marsha Naify and trainer Bruce Headley.
A 5-year-old Quiet American mare out of the Farma Way mare Ruby Surprise, Free Flying Soul has six wins in 15 attempts. The top weight at 122 pounds, she has earned $393,177.
Sweet August Moon, who was fifth in the Desert Stormer on June 12 and Moon de French round out the field.
Owned by Zayat Stables and trained by Bob Baffert, Moon de French is a 5-year-old Malibu Moon mare out of the French Deputy mare French Silk who has won three of six. Her bankroll is $107,302.
From inside out, the field for the A Gleam Handicap: Will O Way, Tyler Baze rides, 114 pounds; Moon de French, Martin Garcia, 114; Emmy Darling, Joel Rosario, 115; Free Flying Soul, Mike Smith, 122; Made For Magic, Omar Berrio, 117 and Sweet August Moon, Victor Espinoza, 116.
The A Gleam is the fourth of 10 races while the Swaps is the ninth. Post time Saturday is 1 p.m.


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Bank on an immune booster. An amino acid called N-acetylcysteine not only helps thin mucus but also fortifies your body's defenses, Dr. Brauer explains. You can buy N-acetylcysteine in most health food stores. Take the supplement according to the directions on the label.
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Take special care of yourself if you are suffering from allergic bronchitis. As already said, the condition can get dangerous. Keep some antihistamine medication with you while traveling. You never know the type of allergens you might come across in an unfamiliar location. Having some anti-histamine with you will help you easily control any allergic reaction that might come up.
You can get T.B. lung infections from through coughing, sneezing, talking, and laughing. The individuals who become infected with Tuberculosis may show certain signs and symptoms. Nausea, chest pains, weakness, weight loss, fatigue, fever, night sweats, chest pains, coughs and hemoptysis.
Be assured that it is possible to live a full, happy, and productive life even with allergic
. It is very important to keep yourself informed about your condition, ways of treating it, and way of preventing it. Be in touch with your allergist and your doctor. They are the best people to give you all the information you require about allergic bronchitis and to teach you how to live with the problem effectively.
Treatment of Allergic
The importance of consulting a physician as soon you notice symptoms of allergic
cannot be overstressed. The doctor will conduct the required steps to find out which type of allergen is responsible for your particular problem. The test involves injecting an allergen directly under the skin and observing the way your body reacts to it.
One such therapy people try is Halotherapy or what is initially called to salt therapy or speleotherapy. Overseas in Europe, this is a well-documented type of therapy. This was well practiced in the early 19th century in the salt mines. Today, physicians are trying to duplicate its effect by using dry aerosol salt particles and minerals.
Tuberculosis disease is one of the more catching lung infections that you can find. In this infection the bacteria that is know as Mycobacterium causes tuberculosis. The ground that Tuberculosis is contagious is because the Mycobacterium virus is still active within the hosts' body.
You know you are a victim of allergic
when you suffer from breathlessness, runny nose, red or swollen eyes, hyperventilation, tight chest, tickling in throat, persistent sneezing or coughing, headache, nausea, and so on. As soon as you recognise these symptoms, seek the help of a medical practitioner.
Governments do help by offering health plans for the needy like children and older adults. You can find these programs by going to your local organizations that do offer free health care services.
* Austria * Armenia * Bulgaria * Hungary * Belarus * Russia * Ukraine and * Slovenia The above countries believe firmly that salt therapy works and it is vital for the treatment of lung related diseases. Salt therapy works well too if you are taking a medication that has no side effects. The best thing about this therapy is that is safe for pregnant women (pregnant women can not usually take medicine because of the effects on the baby.)
These are just a few of the many types of lung infections that you can get. To find out if there are any other types and what effect they will have on your body you should see a doctor for more information.
Sometimes acute
causes a dry, hacking cough, says Anne Simons, M.D. Other times the cough is productive, meaning that it brings up mucus.
usually develops on the heels of a cold or the flu. Your body's battle to defeat these infections leaves your bronchial tubes sensitive, irritated, and inflamed, explains Alan P. Brauer, M.D. This impairs the ability of the tiny hairs that line the bronchial tubes, called the cilia, to sweep mucus and other debris out of your respiratory tract. With your bronchial tubes inflamed and your cilia impaired, your body resorts to its coughing mechanism to keep those bronchi clear.
Although natural cures are good and helpful, they are no substitutions to going to the doctor. Always talk with your physician first before starting any kind of plan. Salt therapy is great alternative to modern medication for bronchitis especially if you feel they are not working.
The most common symptom of
is a dry annoying cough. A headache, feeling ill, chills, mild fever, wheezing - in the wheezing the may be a whistling or hissing sound that is heard. You will also feel a tightness or discomfort in the chest.
The other type of lung infection that you can get is that of bronchitis. This is an inflammation that occurs in the lining of the bronchial tubes. These tubes connect to the wind pipe to the lungs. There is normally a delicate, mucus-producing lining. This covers and protects the entire breathing system.
Prevention of Allergic Bronchitis It is easy to manage and even prevent allergic
. As mentioned previously, the easiest way is to determine the particular allergen causing your problem and just stay away from it. In addition to this, it pays to know a few things such as the following.
In most cases, allergic
causes mild to moderate suffering. However, it is important to realize that allergic
can become very dangerous and even cause death. This is because some people are extremely sensitive to allergens. This extreme sensitivity can lead to suffocation caused due to the blocking of airways by inflamed tissues. People in this condition are in great danger. They need immediate hospitalization and medical care.
Resort to zinc. Several studies have shown that zinc gluconate lozenges help treat the common cold. Dr. Pizzorno also recommends them for bronchitis. His prescription: Suck on one lozenge containing 23 milligrams of zinc every 2 waking hours for 1 week. Don't use the lozenges any longer than that, he cautions. Over time, zinc can suppress the immune system.
Millions of Americans suffer from one respiratory disorder or the other, which can impact their lives in serious ways. A respiratory disorder can be acute or chronic. Acute disorders can be easily treated and last for a short time. On the other hand, chronic disorders are not only difficult to treat but can also leave a person disabled for life.
Herbal Medicine Enlist the dynamic duo. Two immuneenhancing herbs, echinacea and goldenseal, can help your body fight off the virus that's causing your symptoms. Dr. Pizzorno recommends taking either herb in tincture form-1 teaspoon three times a day, mixed into juice or tea. Continue taking this tincture formulation for up to 8 weeks. The tinctures are sold in most health food stores.
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Loosen the mucus. If you have a productive cough, you don't want to suppress it. Instead, you want to loosen the bronchial mucus so that it's easier to eliminate. The herbal expectorants licorice, horehound, and wild cherry bark can help. Dr. Pizzorno recommends taking anyone of these herbs as a tea or tincture. To make a tea, add 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried herb to 1 cup of boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes, then strain. Drink up to three cupfuls a day. To use the tincture, take 1 teaspoon up to three times a day, mixed into juice or tea.
In allergic
, irritants and allergens inflame the bronchi and lower parts of the respiratory system. The condition lasts as long as the person is exposed to the allergens. In addition, allergic bronchitis is closely associated with asthma and respiratory allergy and can lead to conditions such as hay fever and allergic rhinitis.
In order to combat this character of lung infection you need treatment. Without the proper medicine this deficiency of oxygen into your body cells, combined along with the lung infection that is your body, you can die. To enable you to identify if you have pneumonia there are some symptoms that can help you out. These cough up greenish or yellow colored mucus, sharp stabbing pains in the chest. These pains go worsened when you take a deep breath, fever, chills and sometimes hemotysis will occur.
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The best thing about salt-therapy is its non-invasive and no drug therapy of the respiratory diseases. That does include bronchitis. While medicine therapy does have its advantages and disadvantages, salt therapy is a natural means with no side effects. Clinical trials are being tested worldwide for the salt therapy benefits.
Give symptoms the slip. Slippery elm bark can work wonders for a dry, hacking cough, says Varro E. Tyler, Ph.D., Sc.D., distinguished professor emeritus of pharmacognosy (natural pharmacy) at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The herb is rich in mucilage, a soluble fiber that soothes the respiratory tract and suppresses coughing. Look for slippery elm bark lozenges in health food stores. Use the lozenges as directed on the package.
After so tries at many medications, people tend to resort to natural remedies. Also many people gravitate towards this resort because the effects of medicine.
The following countries have acknowledged that they use and do affirm the effectiveness of this type of therapy. * Romania * Poland * Germany
The summer season can aggravate this condition simply because during the summer, there are plenty of allergens in the air. Remember to bathe your pets regularly and free their fur from any allergens. A lot of allergens are frequently found in the fur of animals.
Respiratory diseases is a major cause of morbidity globe wide. Most drug therapies have slight side effects while steroid treatments have greater ones. No doubt with the side effects, that salt therapy is a great "natural" possible cure. No wonder there is a need for salt.
Best Choices Supplements "C" your way to relief. Vitamin C has been proven effective as a treatment for allergies and asthma as well as for the Common cold. Naturopath Joseph Pizzorno Jr., N.D., believes that C can help clear up
, too. He recommends taking 500 milligrams of the vitamin every 2 waking hours until your symptoms subside.
When a person contracts
, it may be hard for them to breathe normally. As their lungs have to work very hard in order to supply oxygen to their body. During
lung infections the tissues become irritated. There is more mucus produced than is necessary.
The other character of lung infection that you can get is that of Pneumonia. In pneumonia the alveoli in the lungs becomes filled with pus or other types of liquid. This is a very serious lung infection due to this reason. The pus or liquids in the alveoli blocks the normal transition of oxygen in the lungs. Without oxygen your body cells can't work properly.
What is Allergic
? Allergic bronchitis is a type of respiratory disorder. It is commonly referred to as allergic asthma. The immune system of a person suffering from allergic
is highly sensitive and so hyperactive that it attacks even harmless foreign substances that enter the body. To put it in other words, the immune system labels a harmless entrant into the body as "dangerous" and produces antibodies to fight against it.
Europe's health care system covers salt therapy, which makes it easier for those who are less fortunate be pay for it or nothing at all. Each hospital dispenses its own medicinal therapy from nine grams per one to three hundred and twenty grams to one.
It was recognized by Felix Botchkowi, a health official, that salt miners never got lung related diseases. During World War II, salt mines were turned into shelters and those who had asthma tended to feel much better. There are still salt hospitals in various parts of the world including Russia, Poland, Romania and Austria
A case of acute
usually lasts for a week or two. To make the coughing and hacking disappear more quickly, try these blended-medicine solutions.
Your doctor might even ask you to see an allergist. Allergists perform a series of tests in order to understand the nature of your allergy to a particular allergen. In addition, allergists can also teach you how to prevent the relapse of allergic bronchitis.
Many aspects have been covered in this article so that you can gain from an wide research. There are a number if unlike way that we can become infected in our lungs. Some of the more known types of lung infections are tuberculosis, pneumonia, Severe acute respiratory syndrome and
. These are all lung infections that need to be treated.
Treating mild or moderate allergic
is fairly simple. You need plenty of knowledge about the disorder, and you also need to know the particular type of allergen responsible for your problem. Once you know, it is easy to just avoid the allergens responsible for your problem. The medical treatment for this condition is anti-histamine medication.
I trust you enjoyed reading this article and found the information useful and interesting.
Michael Malega presents several lung infections articles for your information. You can visit Michael's web spot at: http://www.bladder-ear-lung-infection.com/Lung-Infections.php
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Maxim Gorky, also spelled Maksim Gorky, pseudonym of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, (born March 16 [March 28, New Style], 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia--died June 14, 1936), Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths.
Gorky's earliest years were spent in Astrakhan, where his father, a former upholsterer, became a shipping agent. When the boy was five his father died; Gorky returned to Nizhny Novgorod to live with his maternal grandparents, who brought him up after his mother remarried. The grandfather was a dyer whose business deteriorated and who treated Gorky harshly. From his grandmother he received most of what little kindness he experienced as a child.
Gorky knew the Russian working-class background intimately, for his grandfather afforded him only a few months of formal schooling, sending him out into the world to earn his living at the age of eight. His jobs included, among many others, work as assistant in a shoemaker's shop, as errand boy for an icon painter, and as dishwasher on a Volga steamer, where the cook introduced him to reading--soon to become his main passion in life. Frequently beaten by his employers, nearly always hungry and ill clothed, he came to know the seamy side of Russian life as few other Russian authors before or since. The bitterness of these early experiences later led him to choose the word gorky ("bitter") as his pseudonym.
His late adolescence and early manhood were spent in Kazan, where he worked as a baker, docker, and night watchman. There he first learned about Russian revolutionary ideas from representatives of the Populist movement, whose tendency to idealize the Russian peasant he later rejected. Oppressed by the misery of his surroundings, he attempted suicide by shooting himself. Leaving Kazan at the age of 21, he became a tramp, doing odd jobs of all kinds during extensive wanderings through southern Russia.
In Tbilisi (Tiflis) Gorky began to publish stories in the provincial press, of which the first was "Makar Chudra" (1892), followed by a series of similar wild Romantic legends and allegories of only documentary interest. But with the publication of "Chelkash" (1895) in a leading St. Petersburg journal, he began a success story as spectacular as any in the history of Russian literature. "Chelkash," one of his outstanding works, is the story of a colourful harbour thief in which elements of Romanticism and realism are mingled. It began Gorky's celebrated "tramp period," during which he described the social dregs of Russia. He expressed sympathy and self-identification with the strength and determination of the individual hobo or criminal, characters previously described more objectively. "Dvadtsat shest i odna" (1899; "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl"), describing the sweated labour conditions in a bakery, is often regarded as his best short story. So great was the success of these works that Gorky's reputation quickly soared, and he began to be spoken of almost as an equal of Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov.
Next Gorky wrote a series of plays and novels, all less excellent than his best earlier stories. The first novel, Foma Gordeyev (1899), illustrates his admiration for strength of body and will in the masterful barge owner and rising capitalist Ignat Gordeyev, who is contrasted with his relatively feeble and intellectual son Foma, a "seeker after the meaning of life," as are many of Gorky's other characters. From this point, the rise of Russian capitalism became one of Gorky's main fictional interests. Other novels of the period are Troye (1900; Three of Them), Ispoved (1908; A Confession), Gorodok Okurov (1909; "Okurov City"), and Zhizn Matveya Kozhemyakina (1910; "The Life of Matvey Kozhemyakin"). These are all to some extent failures because of Gorky's inability to sustain a powerful narrative, and also because of a tendency to overload his work with irrelevant discussions about the meaning of life. Mat (1906; Mother) is probably the least successful of the novels, yet it has considerable interest as Gorky's only long work devoted to the Russian revolutionary movement. It was made into a notable silent film by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1926) and dramatized by Bertolt Brecht in Die Mutter (1930-31). Gorky also wrote a series of plays, the most famous of which is Na dne (1902; The Lower Depths). A dramatic rendering of the kind of flophouse character that Gorky had already used so extensively in his stories, it still enjoys great success abroad and in Russia. He also wrote Meshchane (1902; The Petty Bourgeois, or The Smug Citizen), a play that glorifies the hero-intellectual who has revolutionary tendencies but also that explores the disruptions revolutionaries can wreak on everyday life.
Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived mainly in St. Petersburg, where he became a Marxist, supporting the Social Democratic Party. After the split in that party in 1903, Gorky went with its Bolshevik wing. But he was often at odds with the Bolshevik leader V.I. Lenin. Nor did Gorky ever, formally, become a member of Lenin's party, though his enormous earnings, which he largely gave to party funds, were one of that organization's main sources of income. In 1901 the Marxist review Zhizn ("Life") was suppressed for publishing a short revolutionary poem by Gorky, "Pesnya o burevestnike" ("Song of the Stormy Petrel"). Gorky was arrested but released shortly afterward and went to Crimea, having developed tuberculosis. In 1902 he was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, but his election was soon withdrawn for political reasons, an event that led to the resignations of Chekhov and the writer V.G. Korolenko from the academy. Gorky took a prominent part in the Russian Revolution of 1905, was arrested in the following year, and was again quickly released, partly as the result of protests from abroad. He toured America in the company of his mistress, an event that led to his partial ostracism there and to a consequent reaction on his part against the United States as expressed in stories about New York City, Gorod zhyoltogo dyavola (1906; "The City of the Yellow Devil").
On leaving Russia in 1906, Gorky spent seven years as a political exile, living mainly in his villa on Capri in Italy. Politically, Gorky was a nuisance to his fellow Marxists because of his insistence on remaining independent, but his great influence was a powerful asset, which from their point of view outweighed such minor defects. He returned to Russia in 1913, and during World War I he agreed with the Bolsheviks in opposing Russia's participation in the war. He opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and went on to attack the victorious Lenin's dictatorial methods in his newspaper Novaya zhizn ("New Life") until July 1918, when his protests were silenced by censorship on Lenin's orders. Living in Petrograd, Gorky tried to help those who were not outright enemies of the Soviet government. Gorky often assisted imprisoned scholars and writers, helping them survive hunger and cold. His efforts, however, were thwarted by figures such as Lenin and Grigory Zinovyev, a close ally of Lenin's who was the head of the Petrograd Bolsheviks. In 1921 Lenin sent Gorky into exile under the pretext of Gorky's needing specialized medical treatment abroad.
In the decade ending in 1923 Gorky's greatest masterpiece appeared. This is the autobiographical trilogy Detstvo (1913-14; My Childhood), V lyudyakh (1915-16; In the World), and Moi universitety (1923; My Universities). The title of the last volume is sardonic because Gorky's only university had been that of life, and his wish to study at Kazan University had been frustrated. This trilogy is one of the finest autobiographies in Russian. It describes Gorky's childhood and early manhood and reveals him as an acute observer of detail, with a flair for describing his own family, his numerous employers, and a panorama of minor but memorable figures. The trilogy contains many messages, which Gorky now tended to imply rather than preach openly: protests against motiveless cruelty, continued emphasis on the importance of toughness and self-reliance, and musings on the value of hard work.
Gorky finished his trilogy abroad, where he also wrote the stories published in Rasskazy 1922-1924 (1925; "Stories 1922-24"), which are among his best work. From 1924 he lived at a villa in Sorrento, Italy, to which he invited many Russian artists and writers who stayed for lengthy periods. Gorky's health was poor, and he was disillusioned by postrevolutionary life in Russia, but in 1928 he yielded to pressures to return, and the lavish official celebration there of his 60th birthday was beyond anything he could have expected. In the following year he returned to the U.S.S.R. permanently and lived there until his death. His return coincided with the establishment of Stalin's ascendancy, and Gorky became a prop of Stalinist political orthodoxy. Correspondence published in the 1990s between Gorky and Stalin and between Gorky and Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet secret police, shows that Gorky gradually lost all illusions that freedom would prevail in the U.S.S.R., and he consequently adjusted to the rules of the new way of life. He was now more than ever the undisputed leader of Soviet writers, and, when the Soviet Writers' Union was founded in 1934, he became its first president. At the same time, he helped to found the literary method of Socialist Realism, which was imposed on all Soviet writers and which obliged them--in effect--to become outright political propagandists.
Gorky remained active as a writer, but almost all his later fiction is concerned with the period before 1917. In Delo Artamonovykh (1925; The Artamonov Business), one of his best novels, he showed his continued interest in the rise and fall of prerevolutionary Russian capitalism. From 1925 until the end of his life, Gorky worked on the novel Zhizn Klima Samgina ("The Life of Klim Samgin"). Though he completed four volumes that appeared between 1927 and 1937 (translated into English as Bystander, The Magnet, Other Fires, and The Specter), the novel was to remain unfinished. It depicts in detail 40 years of Russian life as seen through the eyes of a man inwardly destroyed by the events of the decades preceding and following the turn of the 20th century. There were also more plays--Yegor Bulychov i drugiye (1932; "Yegor Bulychov and Others") and Dostigayev i drugiye (1933; "Dostigayev and Others")--but the most generally admired work is a set of reminiscences of Russian writers--Vospominaniya o Tolstom (1919; Reminiscences of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy) and O pisatelyakh (1928; "About Writers"). The memoir of Tolstoy is so lively and free from the hagiographic approach traditional in Russian studies of their leading authors that it has sometimes been acclaimed as Gorky's masterpiece. Almost equally impressive is Gorky's study of Chekhov. He also wrote pamphlets on topical events and problems in which he glorified some of the most brutal aspects of Stalinism.
Some mystery attaches to Gorky's death, which occurred suddenly in 1936 while he was under medical treatment. Whether his death was natural or not is unknown, but it came to figure in the trial of Nikolay I. Bukharin and others in 1938, at which it was claimed that Gorky had been the victim of an anti-Soviet plot by the "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites." The former police chief Genrikh Yagoda, who was among the defendants, confessed to having ordered his death. Some Western authorities have suggested that Gorky was done to death on Stalin's orders, having finally become sickened by the excesses of Stalinist Russia, but there is little evidence of this except that it was characteristic of Stalin to frame others on the charge of accomplishing his own misdeeds.
After his death Gorky was canonized as the patron saint of Soviet letters. His reputation abroad has also remained high, but it is doubtful whether posterity will deal with him so kindly. His success was partly due, both in the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent abroad, to political accident. Though technically of lower-middle-class origin, he lived in such poverty as a child and young man that he is often considered the greatest "proletarian" in Russian literature. This circumstance, coinciding with the rise of working-class movements all over the world, helped to give Gorky an immense literary reputation, which his works do not wholly merit.
Gorky's literary style, though gradually improving through the years, retained its original defects of excessive striving for effect, of working on the reader's nerves by the piling up of emotive adjectives, and of tending to overstate. Among Gorky's other defects, in addition to his weakness for philosophical digressions, is a certain coarseness of emotional grain. But his eye for physical detail, his talent for making his characters live, and his unrivaled knowledge of the Russian "lower depths" are weighty items on the credit side. Gorky was the only Soviet writer whose work embraced the prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary period so exhaustively, and, though he by no means stands with Chekhov, Tolstoy, and others in the front rank of Russian writers, he remains one of the more important literary figures of his age.
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Modotek ECU - Project Cheaper Sleeper - Black Ops
Putting Modotek's new ECU to the test on the street, dyno, and dragstrip
In our last report on Project Cheaper Sleeper ("Spoiler Alert," May '13), we detailed all of the undercover changes that Rocco Acerrio (A.R.E. Performance & Machine) and Stevie Morrow (Stevie's Garage) made on the virgin-stock '91 Mustang LX (5.0/AOD). This time around we are highlighting several cool concepts that were implemented in the 'Stang's makeover. However, one component that was added—Modotek's BlackBox v2.0 ECU—stands out among the project's headlining upgrades.
Call it perfect timing, as we received word of the BlackBox v2.0 just a few days after your scribe assumed ownership of the project Fox for $1,000. Shortly thereafter the idea of installing a low-dollar EFI 331/nitrous combination under its hood spawned. When weighing the options of how to control the engine package, we knew the Modotek ECU would be perfect for bringing our Pony's 331 stroker to life and dialing-in its performance on the street, strip, and chassis dyno.
In the old days, once performance mods went beyond adjusting timing and fuel pressure, it was time to tune EEC-IV engine management with a chip. These chips are small data modules that contain programmed timing and fuel commands that override the stock programming for a modified 5.0. They plug directly into a PCM's circuit board. While effective, chips are old news because they are fixed calibrations that cannot be manipulated on the fly.
Through the years, piggyback processors were a saving grace, of sorts, for street Ponies making big steam. Of course, the next level on all of the aforementioned tuning variants are the various stand-alone systems. While any of these systems can be used for moderate-performance applications, like our project car, they're a lot more elaborate than we really need. Typically such systems are used for high-powered Mustangs loaded with race parts.
There's one thing that we said about BlackBox v2.0 in our last report that definitely deserves repeating here: Many of the standalone systems, while excellent, are often a bit too advanced for some setups. Modotek addressed cost (the basic BlackBox v2.0 system is only $1,349) and user-friendliness head on by designing the first plug-and-play management system for EFI Foxes that connects directly (one-to-one) into a stock wiring harness. Furthermore, it allows users to precision-tune engines and power-adder systems (using a laptop) for maximum performance, the same way it's done with a stand-alone system that requires all-new wiring.
Enough about its potential. Let's get down to how it installs, and more importantly, how well it works on Cheaper Sleeper.
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On the Dyno
The break-in period (approximately 300 miles of road testing) for Project Cheaper Sleeper's new bullet allowed your tech editor and tuning wizard Brian Macy of Horsepower Connection to work with the new Modotek BlackBox v2.0 engine-management system. This affordable ($1,349) plug-in ECU can use short-term and long-term fuel trims to determine the amount of fuel correction necessary for achieving a targeted air-fuel ratio (13.97 for cruising).
In the tuning world, the short-term fuel trim is the amount of fuel that the O2 sensor is allowed to change instantly, while the long-term trim is fuel values that are stored in another table and applied to a calibration by the tuner when and where desired or necessary in the map.
We actually started calibrating with the basic 5.0 startup tune programmed in the BlackBox v2.0 by the factory, and used the unit's Closed-Loop, Long-Term Factor Table (or in basic terms, the "learning option") to help get our fuel map in check rather quickly while driving down the highway. One of the neat things about this system is that (with a laptop, of course) you can watch this table real time to see how far off you are in your tune and apply changes to the whole table or just small sections.
While everything went well with achieving great driveability, we were anxious to strap our Mustang on the rollers of GTR High Performance's Dynojet chassis dyno to see how the ECU would measure up when it was time to calibrate the engine for power, naturally aspirated and with a hit of spray from the Nitrous Oxide Systems plate that is secretly swedged between the 331's upper and lower intake plenums.
We made several runs, steadily changing values in the PCM's Base Fuel Table until air/fuel ratio matched the target we set in the Closed-Loop Table. Once that was achieved, we experimented with the timing to see where the engine made the most power. At WOT, 32 degrees of total timing and 12.7:1 air fuel netted us 278 horses at the feet. That's a solid 100hp gain (through an AOD) over Cheaper Sleeper's original bullet, thanks to a few more cubic inches, a slightly better (but still OEM 5.0 Ford) cylinder-head/intake-manifold package, and a lumpy camshaft, all of which can be scored for minimal cash outlay.
With the naturally aspirated calibration set, we then focused on building a nitrous tune. For nitrous, ignition timing typically is retarded when the unit is activated while fuel is enrichened. With target air/fuel set at 12:1, Sleeper's stroker responded best to 6 degrees of timing retard, hitting the dyno hard with 354 horsepower and 427 lb-ft of killer torque at the feet.
As an expert who works with all types of high-end engine-management systems and consults with manufacturers on ways to improve them, Brian gave his thoughts about the Modotek BlackBox v2.0. "BlackBox is a great ECU for the price," Brian said. "The system is full of awesome features, and there is no shortage of modifiers in the software that will allow beginner and advanced tuners to get almost any engine combination running well, as long as all of the general specifics for the engine are in order. Honestly, had this system been around when KJ's T-top Coupe was built, that supercharged Mustang could actually have a mass-air sensor and be tuned to make the same 1,000 hp that it currently makes," Brian said.
Drag Day
As you can imagine, we were really excited about taking Project Cheaper Sleeper to the dragstrip and evaluating how the additional power (hopefully) improves the Pony's previous-best e.t. and speed. In the spirit of your tech editor's experience participating in Hot Rod magazine's Drag Week 2012, the decision was made to conduct a "Drag Day," loading all of the racing essentials into the 'Stang's hatch and driving to the dragstrip in Bakersfield, California…140 miles away (one way) from KJ's home…and back.
In a nutshell, the effort was a total success! The project 'Stang was flawless in both driving segments of the road trip. And on the track, the gain of nearly 1.5 seconds and close to 10 mph over the best factory-stock performance (naturally aspirated) is awesome when you consider the car's 3,500-pound weight and that passes were made without manually shifting the AOD. The Performance Automatic tranny was run in D for the duration of our test day to replicate the manner in which the 'Stang was driven (with the stock engine and AOD) in our baseline runs.
Unfortunately, time ran short on our test day and we were not able to fire the nitrous system. However, we're happy with the results and what we learned by running the car in naturally aspirated trim first. Now, of course, we know there are plenty of similarly configured Foxes out there that post better numbers than this and may be just as capable of performing as efficiently on the street. The important thing to keep in mind for our 'Stang is that from the project's outset we noted there's no desire to set the world on fire with this Pony. Doing that typically carries a hefty price tag, even when you're smart shopping and finding good deals.
The horsepower and torque gains that we saw on the dyno and in the mile-per-hour increase in the quarter-mile are strong indicators that by simply adjusting the TV cable (to extend the transmission's shift points when racing in D) or by manually shifting the AOD, Sleeper definitely is a 13-second/100-plus mph ride. We also know that by installing a looser torque converter, swapping heads and intake for better airflow, putting the heavy Pony on a diet, and focusing on a few more racier mods, Sleeper probably would be in the 12s—without the nitrous.
Other than possibly knocking off a few pounds, don't count on seeing such changes any time soon. We're proud of the solid accomplishments that were made thus far, and remember, we still have a 150hp shot of nitrous to play with the next time Project Cheaper Sleeper is at the track.
More Hidden Pleasures
There are all sorts of cool upgrades that are buried within Project Cheaper Sleeper. This is a sampling of a few more sneaky mods that we came up with—cool yet functional and efficient changes that play right into our stealth street/strip 'Stang concept.
While we've emphasized throughout this project that mods like these can come cheap through smart shopping, deal-making, and so on, we must add one caveat. Custom-made wheels like the big 'n' little-style 10-holes that Pico Wheel Service created are among the few pricier items. You probably won't come across a set of hoops like that on the used market, and by the time you have a set made, have the wheels powdercoated (notice the black accenting on our wheels), and then add Mickey Thompson rubber, you'll have spent a little more than a grand.
Yes, that's a pretty big ticket for cool. However, if you plan well and make good moves in other areas, scoring nice custom pieces certainly can happen despite a tight budget.


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Thank you for all your hard work - you've saved me from pulling out what little hair I have left... A suggestion - on the Log page, it lists the IP addresses that are detected / blocked. When one of my users noted that he was getting blocked (School connection, there must have been a bot in his school that flagged the whole network), I had to dig to figure out which IP was his. I would like to suggest adding a column to the log of users associated with a given IP address, so that a quick visual scan will tell an Admin who may be blacklisted, that can later be excepted.I know you're working on the exception part now, which is very nice. Hopefully, including a list of users on the "short" log will make this even more useful.Both myself and my forum users thank you!
Version 1.0 - 17th August 2009 oInitial release oCan be installed in any PHP page, not only SMF oCan block any spammer from viewing your site oIt checks IP in Project Honey Pot DB oIf match, the visitor is redirected to the "warning.php" page oKeeps a log of "IPs stopped" in a text file in your server oCompatible with any PHP program, so it's compatible with all SMF versionsVersion 2.0 - 11th February 2010 -Eliminated compatibility with other programs, making it now exclusive for SMF +Added a powerful install script which now does everything for you with just one click +Added an easy-to-use configuration interface to control the mod -Eliminated the text file log, too difficult to find and read +Added a log table in the database +Added a view-log interface to see the information stored in it ?Unistall old version and install new one ?Need to edit manually 2 small things in index.template.php if you are not using the default oneVersion 2.1 - 15th February 2010 +Added compatibility with SMF 2.0 RC2 +Added a color system in the view-log page to see threat level of each IP stopped by the mod +Added an option to see the view-log page with only important information or with all the extra data +Added some lines to the language files for the new features ?Unistall old version and install new one ?No need to edit manually any template file if you are updating from version 2.0Version 2.2 - 17th February 2010 +Added cached values if cache is enabled to reduce time +Added more methods to find the visitor's IP !Sorted issue with servers not using Mysql ?Unistall old version and install new one ?No need to edit manually any template file if you are updating from version 2.xVersion 2.3 - 1st March 2010 !The mod now never checks the admin (bug reported by Exsharaen) +Added a value in config page for "threat level very very high" +Added a captcha in "warning.php" If the threat level is below the "high level" the visitor passIf the threat level is between the "high level" and the "very very high level" the captcha appearsIf the threat level is higher than the "very very high level" it's stopped and doesn't see the captcha +Added a cookie valid for 24h. If the visitor sees the captcha and proves is human, gets the cookie +Added a value in config page for "cookie lenght" +Added a counter with the number of spammers stopped by the mod +Added a a button in the view-log page to hide or show the legend +Added a a button in the view-log page to change quickly from "normal view" to "see all the extra info" *View-log page now separated in 3 different ones:Spammers stoppedHumans allowed inInternal errors +Added a column in view-log for "username" with link to member profile +Added some more info in "see all the extra info" mode *Changed all the language files ?Unistall old version and install new one ?No need to edit manually any template file if you are updating from version 2.x
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Things to do in the near future: (1st March 2010) *I need to finish the tutorial with the couple of small things you need to edit in the file index.template.php and the instruccions on how to use it. +I need to add an option in the config page ASAP to decide what groups of members you don't want to be checked never by the mod. +I need to add an option in the config page asking you if you want the data to be deleted automatically from the log after X days or not and how many days you want to keep the data in the log. +When the mod finds an error it writes it in the log table. It should also email the admin if the error is an important one. +I need to write a FAQ with some things I already know they are going to start asking.
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When you enable iTunes Match on an iOS device (Settings -> Music -> iTunes Match), you'll see a warning that "iTunes Match will replace the music library on this device." When iTunes Match was still in beta, that message was true to its word: Any music you had on your device was indeed deleted, in favor of the library you'd uploaded to the cloud via iTunes Match. But in the official version of iTunes Match released Monday, that's no longer the case. In truth, any music that was on your iOS device before you enabled iTunes Match will still be there—and that fact can save you on time and bandwidth.
After you've enabled iTunes Match, it downloads songs to your iOS device on an as-needed basis: When you tap on an individual song, iTunes Match downloads it first, then starts playing it. (That accounts for the slight delay you'll notice before the track begins; iTunes is buffering the download.) After you've played that song once, the downloaded copy stays on your device. The next time you want to play it, it'll already be there; it doesn't need to be downloaded again. Tracks that are available via iTunes Match but haven't been downloaded yet are marked with an iCloud icon. Once you tap to play them, that icon disappears.
But those already-played songs aren't the only ones you'll find on your device: Despite Apple's warning, any songs that you had synced to your device prior to turning on iTunes Match will still be there. They don't display an iCloud icon; your device and iTunes Match are smart enough to recognize that the tracks are already available.
However, after you enable iTunes Match, you can no longer sync music via iTunes; if you try, the Music tab for your device in the iTunes app will indicate that iTunes Match is on and will offer the option of syncing Voice Memos only. So let's say you want to have the $149 complete Beatles anthology —more than 250 tracks—on your iOS device. You bought it some time ago, but never synced it to your iOS device. Now, the only apparent way to get all of those tracks on your device again is to tap on The Beatles from the Artists tab, scroll to the bottom of the albums, and tap Download All. That would seem to be a big waste of time and bandwidth.
Fortunately, there's a workaround, which leverages the fact that enabling iTunes Match does not actually wipe out your iOS device's library. The trick? Disable iTunes Match on your iOS device first, under Settings -> Music. Now sync the tracks you want on your device. Then turn iTunes Match back on.
The good part is that any songs you've already downloaded to your device from iCloud stay there even after you disable iTunes Match, and they'll still be there when you reenable it, too. In other words, you can use this trick to sync tracks from your iTunes library as often as you'd like, without adversely affecting your iTunes Match setup at all. The only thing you'll lose is the few seconds it takes your iOS device to re-download all your playlists and song metadata when you turn on iTunes Match again.
There is one big caveat to this approach: It will only work for songs that exist in your iTunes Match library. That is, if you turn off iTunes Match and then sync a few random tracks that aren't part of your master library, those songs will vanish after you turn iTunes Match back on. So while it's a useful trick for preloading your iOS music library with songs so that you won't need to re-download them from iTunes Match, it won't work for expanding your library to include songs that you're not matching with the service.


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I just finished year 12 and I am taking a year off to work full time for a software company in Sydney. After that I want to study Software Engineering or Computer Science, maybe with a double degree in Business/Commerce or Math.
While I'll be working as a .NET developer for the next year (developing debt management and recovery software in C# and .NET 2.0), which will give me excellent programming, design and experience for when I start the university course, I want to do something to learn about some other things the course may entail - mostly writing, math and electronics. I am hoping you guys know some good links and resources (anything visual or audio)
To improve my writing, I plan to write and submit a lot of tutorials and documentation about programming. But for the maths and electronics I am unsure where to start. I have a full year to prepare so I want to make the most of it.
This is what I have learnt about in math over the last few years (off the top of my head):
- Calculus - derivatives, integrals and definite integrals and first principals stuff.
- Trigonometry - trig. identities, trigonomic calculus, cot, sec and cosec functions.
- Complex numbers, mandlebrot set, julia sets and quadratic iterations.
- Statistics - confidence intervals, z-indexes, inferential statistics
- Deductive geometry
- Vectors, both 3D and 2D, and 3D vector geometry (great for game engines I guess)
- Matrices - identity matrix, inverses and solving systems of equations using matrices.
Based on what I have learned, and I know people here are probably way more advanced in the field, where would the next logical step be? (I don't know what course I'll be doing just yet, so I don't know what the material I should be studing is yet, until I get accepted).
In electronics I know mostly nothing (not really a hardware guy), so some good e-books or videos would be good for that too.
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I did the same thing.s64woody wrote:The only other modification was cutting off the bottom of the fore end. It projects back at an angle, and would catch your finger(s) during a reload. By grinding the rear end of the fore end to a 90 degree angle the problem was solved. This was pointed out by others, but I tried it and think Mossberg should do it at manufacture.
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Im getting a 930 spx soon, what optic would you reccomend? Would an Aimpoint micro co witness?
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November is special time to honor and remember our veterans. When it comes to their post-military career choices, the first challenge many veterans face is creating a resume that demonstrates the way their military skills transfer to the civilian job market.
The military helps shape and form some of the best leaders, and those leaving the military tend to make top candidates.
Keep in mind how important it is to speak civilian language when interviewing. In a recent Forbes article, Caroline Ceniza-Levine spoke about about her experience interviewing job candidates with military experience and how critical it is military veterans be able to sell their unique military experience to the job market. Whether you are talking with a potential employer in person or conveying your skills on a resume, being able to connect to the person to build rapport is a crucial step in moving forward to receiving a good job offer.
Without over-complicating the resume-writing process, you can begin by breaking it down into sections to help you formulate your thoughts and capture your most important skills. Writing your resume is a great career exercise and does several things for you, including building an awareness of your skills and abilities. It also helps you clearly define what you want the employer to know about you.
The best way to start is to become familiar with different types of resumes. Looking at several examples will help simplify the process and encourage creativity.
The thought of writing a resume can be overwhelming and keep you from presenting your experience in the most effective way. In the book, Expert Resumes for Military to Civilian Transitions, Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark offer four practical solutions to get you started:
- Write your resume from the bottom up by starting with the easy information first. List your education, technology skills, professional affiliations and recognitions, for starters.
- Write short job descriptions for older positions, the ones you held years ago. Be brief and focus on the highlights. Showcase promotions or achievements without too many details.
- Write job descriptions for your most recent positions. Focus on major projects and significant achievements. Keep in mind to that these need to relate to your current job objectives. This is where selling your value to the reader becomes crucial — tell them about your successes and results.
- Write your career summary last. This defines your objective and gives the reader a snapshot of your career highlights. It helps distinguish you from others and makes you memorable.
Shane Christopher has a good suggestion to help you translate your military experience to the civilian workplace. He recommends using "the Aunt Jane conversation." Imagine you're talking to your aunt at a family gathering. She wouldn't understand the acronyms and military terminology, so you'd describe your descriptions of your military experience in terms Aunt Jane would understand.
Your resume does not have to be a stumbling block in your next career move. Keep your information clear, and always write to your audience. Employers are looking for leaders every day and having a strong resume will give you a great start.
How have you successfully transitioned your military experience to the civilian job market?