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I was reading on here about passive voice but didn't really know what active voice was. I read some examples but was hoping for more insight. What does it mean to write with the active voice?
When you write in active voice, it means that you're using a standard [subject] [verb] [object] sentence.
When you use the passive voice, it means that you reverse the subject and the object from the active form.
The meaning of the sentence is the same: Jack is doing some killing. Yet Jack is not the subject and killing is not the main verb. The sentence emphasizes all the wrong parts of itself by being put in this order. It uses more words and the picture it gives isn't as clear. When an action is performed, make sure you use that word as the action verb, and you will do just fine.
A verb is in the active voice if the agent of the verb (i.e., the pronoun/noun phrase that does the verb) is in the subject position (usually, but not always before the verb); it is in passive voice if the agent is in object position. Not all verbs are in either the active or the passive voice.
Geoffrey Pullum has three examples of sentences wrongly characterised in Strunk&White as passive in his 50 years of stupid grammar advice anniversary polemic, the first of which is:
Here there are two verbs, the first of which has no agent (it is a modal verb), the second of which is a participle, with its agent in subject position.
Not all verbs are in either the active or passive voice:
How to choose
The active voice has a built-in advantage that it is almost always simpler and briefer, because you don't need an auxiliary verb, which passive constructions need in English. So use the active unless there is a compelling reason not to.
The two most important reasons why the passive might be appropriate are, first, it can give finer control over information conveyed (e.g., Mary was killed!) or secondly, it can change emphasis by giving control over the order in which information is presented (e.g., It was Mary who Jack killed.)
An active sentence means that the subject is the one performing the action, that he is the one being active in the sentence. A passive sentence is a sentence where the action is being performed onto the subject, who is passively enduring the action being done upon it. If you have a sentence for which you can not tell if it is passive or active, just ask yourself if the subject's the one doing the action or is the action being done to the subject.
Since this is a site for writers, I assume you are more interested in the practical use of the passive and active voices than it's grammatical explanation. A lot of people will tell you that using passive voice is bad. Here, I must stand in defence of the passive voice. Using passive voice is not by definition bad. Passive has its uses and its purpose. It is like saying antibiotics are bad. Sure, if you use antibiotics for every little soar throat, you're not doing yourself any favours, but in certain conditions, they are the only thing that can help you. The same goes for passive voice. The trick is to know when to use it.
Here is the example where a passive voice is considered "weak":
Firstly, my apologies to the women in the example. If you look at the sentences, you will notice that they're not exactly bursting with action. Yes, horrible things are happening, but it doesn't feel energetic. That's because all the action is being done to a passive subject. If we change it to:
This example is much more energetic. It's because the subject is actively participating in the action. It is causing it to happen. This is where the scene profits from the use of active voice, and this is the reason they say passive is "bad". If you need a dynamic, active scene, use active voice when ever you can.
But this does not mean passive really is bad. Passive has its uses. The obvious ones being when we don't know or care who is doing the action, or it's implied:
It is usually implied who builds cathedrals - builders commissioned by the Church. Or we simply don't care, we are interested in the cathedral and when it was built, not in those who built it.
The less obvious, more subtle uses of passive are when you don't want the action to be dynamic. Perhaps you want to create a feeling of inaction, of subject's helplessness or unwillingness to take the action.
Sure, They carried him off to his room is more dynamic, more active, but it's not what we want here. We want to show the subject's inability to perform the action, to emphasize his passiveness.
The sentence "The city was ransacked, the men slaughtered and women raped or sold to slavery." implies a certain helplessness of the city and it's people to defend themselves from the fate that has befallen them. Maybe that's more important to us in that moment than the action. It can also depend on whose side we are, the winning side or the loosing side. So, the passive has it's uses. A skilled writer knows when to turn a "weakness" into an advantage.
In answer to Charles Stewart: I would suggest that any verb with a subject must be active or passive. Those are the only constructions we have. We can make passive versions of all your examples, so they must by definition be active voice.
@Jonny - The easy answer to your question is that a verb is active if it is in a normal tense form and is not in a passive construction, which involves different forms of the verb 'to be' + the past participle of the main verb.
He writes books / was writing a book / will have written a book - active This book was written a long time ago/ is being written right now/ had been written in Latin first - passive
Scientists and academics often use--rightly--the passive voice to shift focus from the actor to what is being acted upon. For example, "dry ice was dropped into the at and the ensuing results recorded." The actor is unimportant, so passive voice is acceptable.


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It seems in writing math papers collaborators put their names in the alphabetical order of their last name. Is this a universal accepted norm? I could not find a place putting this down formally.
This tendency of mathematicians is so well-known and universal that it has been taken as an axiom. See Andrew Appel's seminal work establishing whether different computer science conferences are mathematics or science.
I had always heard that there was a famous counterexample to alphabetization, the Zucker-Cox Theorem (where they flipped the order for obvious reasons), but apparently the non-alphebetization in this case was apocryphal.
But indeed, non-alphabetization is very rare.
This question often arises also in the promotion issues, since faculty in other sciences (esp. biological and medical sciences) and humanities have a very different approach to listing the co-authors. I am not totally sure, but I think mathematics is more of an exception than the rule in this respect for whatever cultural reasons. This "ordering" problem is especially difficult in CS and applied math departments, I think, which have both people who order according to the research contribution, and people who use alphabetical order.
In any event, in the last few stages of the promotion approval, when the candidacy goes to the faculty senate, president/chancellor, board, etc. there is often the need to explain this. To clarify this issue, the chairs/deans often write guidelines where they explain the conventional alphabetical order, which sometimes become a part of the faculty rules. My quick search returned these faculty rules: at UGA and UMN. So in the event you need to make a promotion case at your institution, you can use these as a "supporting evidence".
P.S. National Academy of Sciences also voiced these concerns here (search for "alphabetical").
In general, I think that alphabetical order is very common. However, sometimes this should be alphabetical order in other language, and in english translation this order becomes different. For example, take several papers by Vershik and Kerov - the Russian alphabetical order is VK, but in english this is not alphabetical.
It is always interesting when I meet professors in other sciences, particularly biology, to see their reaction when the issue of author names on papers comes up. The last time this happened, I was speaking to a cancer researcher at Harvard medical school. When I told him that author names in math are universally in alphabetical order his eyes got really, really big. He was amazed because he couldn't imagine how you could figure out by such conventions who did what amount of the work and he then explained to me some intricate rules by which researchers in biology determine the placement of author names. I told him that one plus of this alphabetical convention in math is that we don't need to deal with all the games they play in biology about who goes where at the start of the paper.
As far as "a place putting this down formally," see the AMS's 2004 "Information Statement on Joint Research and its Publication" at http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/culture.
The AMS has several of these "culture statements," intended to "highlight the ways in which the traditions in mathematics differ from those in other disciplines." I.e. to convince the skeptical dean that you really deserve that promotion.
My understanding (as someone who hasn't been in this business very long) is that when pure mathematicians co-author a paper, they form a kind of partnership as equal partners, and all credit for everything in the paper goes to the partnership rather than individuals, regardless of what actually happened behind the scenes. As for why:
This convention is not universal in mathematics, and it's annoying to some of us.
See this corrigendum from Inventiones Mathematicae.
In the sciences, it is common to use a convention such as that the first author is the principal investigator for the research while the last author is the leader of the research group. That was not the convention used for a paper published 20 years ago today, W. H. Knox, R. S. Knox, J. F. Hoose, R. N. Zare. "Observation of the 0-fs pulse" Optics and Photonics News, April 1990.
One practice which supports our practice of listing authors alphabetically is our practice of setting a fairly high bar for what counts as sufficient contribution to merit coauthorship.
I am only exaggerating slightly when I say that in some disciplines people become coauthors merely for sitting in on meetings where the paper was discussed.
Certainly, in the more expensive experimental sciences the scientist whose grant paid for the costs of the experiments is always an author, even if he or she made no intellectual contribution to the work.
A famous (and rare) counterexample is the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman paper on public-key cryptography, which gave us the name RSA cryptosystem. Maybe someone can tell us the reason for this ordering of authors' names.
My limited experience agrees with Ryan Williams's answer. As an undergraduate, I wrote a paper with my advisor (last name Mills) and she insisted that my name appear first (my last name is Shelly) so that readers would know that I did most of the work. She was actually being quite generous, and I think really she just wanted the publication to benefit me as much as possible. As she said, if people saw my name second they would assume that I helped out with some trivial aspects of the paper.
I was once told that defying the almost ubiquitous alphebetising convention may create difficulties in referencing the paper later on. It is thus in all the authors´ best interests to stick to this convention.
Incidently a similar discussion was recently had on the secret blogging seminar:
(the discussion began on slightly different matters, but by around comment 20 discussion turns to precisely this question).
It seems to me to be common that if one author (call her author A) contributes significantly less then the others, but still enough to warrant more than an acknowledgement, the paper will be attributed to the other authors (in the normal alphabetical order) with an appendix by author A. This seems to me to be a reasonable way of doing things, since first of all the normal alphabetical order is kept and secondly author A gets credit for her work.
In Medicine and in Surgery, the convention is similar to that of the Physical Sciences with the most significant contributor being first or last, or with the owner of the lab equipment or funding getting senior author position as the last author.
However, there is a curve ball in Medical and Surgical Journals in that the first three authors are the ones who gain the most credit. The reason for this is that back in the pre-WWW-historic era, when I wrote papers that went into Surgical journals and when I went through medical school and surgical residency, the medical journal articles were all indexed in the Index Medicus.
The Index Medicus was a hard-copy index prepared at the end of each year and found in every medical library with three sets of listings sorted by Medical E-something Subject Headings (MeSH), title of the journal article, and the last name of the first three authors. This paper index was how people found journal articles of interest and how the authors gained "publication cred." I ended up as third author on many papers giving me a lot of cred even above some grad students and post-docs who helped with experiments but had not supervised or designed (or originally proposed some of, i.e. conception and design, as I had) the experiments in these papers as I had.
Because of the problem with "author inflation" (people being added to author lists as a courtesy or to accomodate seniority), journals in medical fields such as JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) now require authors to submit signed Authorship Responsibility Forms which outline specifically what constitutes valid criteria for being listed as an author on a paper:
Obtaining funding is listed as one of the possible criteria, as are administrative, technical, or material support. Some of these criteria surprised me as being rather flimsy in some contexts.
Ever number theory paper I have ever read has listed the authors in alphabetical order, with one exception:
D. R. Heath-Brown, D. A. Goldston, "A note on the difference between consecutive primes," Math. Annalen 266 (1984), 317-320.
I guess this was due to an editorial error. Dan Goldston once jokingly told me (paraphrase):
"The rules of mathematics do not apply to Heath-Brown."
Don't know if the question is appropriate for math-overflow, but I will try to quickly answer it anyway.
The rule is not totally universal, but it has become very common. It is certainly the norm in theoretical computer science (my area). It is common enough that when the author order is not alphabetical, it looks strange. One assumes that the first authors must have done almost all the work (and the others probably insisted on being listed behind them).
Placing the authors out-of-order in a mathematics paper makes a strong statement -- that one author has contributed significantly more than another. There are problems with the alphabetical system, and there are also problems with the ordered-by-contribution system, e.g. when authors contribute comparable amounts to a paper, who comes first?
To be fair, the proportion of papers that have authors out-of-order should be contrasted with the likelihood of a random permutation of those authors' names being out-of-order. So, we should disregard papers with a single author. If there's two authors, then there's a 0.5 probability that "alphabetical order" = "ordered by contribution". Then we need to keep in mind that there's fewer papers with 3 or more authors.
There are examples (not just famous ones) around in the mathematics journals if you look for them (I'm guessing often people wouldn't even notice that they're out of alphabetical order). My former supervisor has two:
S. Taylor, I. M. Wanless and N. L. Boland, Distance domination and amplifier placement problems, Australas. J. Combin. 34 (2006) 117-136.
I. M. Wanless and E. C. Ihrig, Symmetries that Latin squares inherit from 1-factorizations, J. Combin. Des., 13 (2005) 157-172.
It seems to me nobody mentioned the Zariski-Samuel and Grothendieck-Dieudonné cases.
In medicine, I have seen two standards used. In one style, the first author is the one who has contributed the most to the paper (or the senior most author), with the rest in order of the degree of their contribution. In the other style, the first author is the "second in command", often the graduate student or medical student or surgical resident who was written the bulk of the paper, with the leader of the lab or the senior-most researcher listed as the last author.
I have seen this explained in both ways to students: that the first spot is the most prestigious according to some researchers and that the last spot is the most prestigious according to some researchers. There seems to be a dividing point between biologists and chemists as to the ordering of prestige. In either case, for a paper with $n$ authors, the ordering of the listed author number $1$ to the author number $n-1$ is in decreasing degree of contribution.
Alphabetical order is used for the sub-levels of contributors: i.e. multiple surgical residents who have contributed equally in performing the clinical science or multiple medical or graduate students who have performed essentially equivalent roles in the laboratory are included in the middle in alphabetical order.


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The abundant supply of North American shale energy resources
is proving to be not only a boon for exploration and production
(E&P) companies and energy consumers, but it is also
changing the profitability landscape for the continents
ethylene producers. According to a recently published report,
these shale energy resources are driving chemical industry job
growth, low-cost ethylene production, significant
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In the US, due to the forecasted low-cost feedstock scenario providing for
globally competitive economics, nearly 11 million metric tons
(MM mt tons) of new ethylene capacity has been announced for
North America, which is a significant amount of new capacity
given the lack of any investment activity for more than a
decade. This news is a welcome development for ethylene
producers in the region, who were, until recently, executing
plans that included capacity closures and asset
Not only does this increased capacity mean more low-cost
production to both domestic and export markets, but it also
means that new, long-term, highly skilled and well-paying jobs
will be added in the US, including operators, engineers and maintenance personnel. According to
industry research, for every one of these chemical jobs added,
three others are created elsewhere, so the job market impact is
considerable. Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are several
of the US states likely to see petrochemical job growth, thanks to
shale energy resource availability.
The US ethylene industry is experiencing a complete
turnaround. Five years ago, the industry was trying to
determine who was going to shut down capacity. Now the US
ethylene industry is running at near-maximum capacity
utilization and is seeking to add significant increments of new
As a result of increasing the availability of low-cost feedstocks, there is a tremendous
amount of capital investment underway, including new
infrastructure needed for feedstock supply, ethylene and
ethylene-derivative capacity, and new logistics investments to
support higher levels of ethylene-derivative exports. Present
forecasts are calling for the first wave of new investment to
start up as early as 2016. Whats exciting for the
long-term health of the industry is that many of these
investments are not just being made by US-based producers, but
also from producers based in other regions, including the
Middle East, Asia and Europe.
Why are these developments in ethylene capacity additions
and production so important? Quite simply, it is because
ethylene is the bell weather product for assessing
the health of the petrochemical industry. Considered the
workhorse of the petrochemical industry, the ethylene market is
by far the largest market of the basic petrochemical building
blocks, including olefins, aromatics, chlor-alkali and syngas
Polyethylenewhich is the largest ethylene-derivative
market, consuming nearly 60% of all ethylene producedis
used primarily in a wide variety of nondurable goods
applications such as packaging materials. Ethylene oxide (used
in antifreeze, polyester fibers and detergents), ethylene
dichloride [used in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) films, coatings
and pipes], and ethylbenzene/styrene (which is used in
polystyrene packaging and ABS resins) are also important
ethylene consumers. The ethylene steam-cracker typically
represents the heart of
a petrochemical complex.
The ethylene industry tends to be a very cyclical industry
in terms of profitability. However, in the US, low regional
ethane prices are supporting high ethylene margins and are
creating a very profitable environment for producers, despite a
global oversupply situation. According to new research, ample
supplies of natural gas liquids from shale development are
keeping ethane prices low relative to other steam-cracker feedstocks.1 As a result,
US ethane-based producers experienced excessively strong
profits in 2012, which contrasted with naphtha-based producers
in the US and in other parts of the world.
These US capacity additions will bring much more supply than
the domestic market demands, so there will be significant
quantities of higher-value ethylene derivatives exported to
Asia, where demand is greatest. This supply resurgence is
causing a substantial shift in ethylene-derivative trade
patterns, to the benefit of North American producers.
The global demand for ethylene reflects a mixed demand
growth environmentrapid expansion in developing regions and
slower growth in developed regions. After contracting
considerably in 2008, world ethylene demand is forecast to be
approximately 135 MM mt tons in 2013, which is higher than the
previous demand peak of nearly 130 MM mt tons in 2012. In the
next five years, global ethylene demand is forecast to grow at
more than 4%/yr, reaching nearly 160 MM mt tons by
Demand in Asia, particularly China, continues to grow since
Chinas chemical industry remains unable to meet the
rapidly growing domestic consumption requirements. Sharp
increases in consumption, stemming from Chinas rapid
industrialization, have spurred the development of numerous new
domestic ethylene and derivative complexes that are either
under construction or planned for the next
five years, including several coal-based facilities. The emergence of coal as
a potential olefins feedstock in Northeast Asia,
however, warrants close monitoring.
As a result of high oil prices in the past several years,
there has been tremendous domestic interest to further develop
and utilize the abundant coal resources in China. Although the
investment involved is often massive, the operating costs of
the coal-to-olefins units will be very low, and the units will
be competitive compared to domestic naphtha-based steam-cracker
complexes, as well as most imports of olefin derivatives.
Assuming that Chinas strong economic growth can be
sustained, this nation will continue to be a major target for
petrochemical and derivative exports originating from the
Middle East, other parts of Asia and North America.
The net-equivalent imports of ethylene and ethylene
derivatives into Northeast Asia increased significantly in
2012, reaching an estimated 8.8 MM mt tons.1 That
trend is expected to continue, with the net deficit expected to
approach 10 MM mt tons by 2017 and to exceed 15 MM mt tons by
With the opportunities and challenges presented by this
rapidly developing abundant shale resource in North America,
there is doubt that the industry will continue to witness the
snowball effect of investments that are sure to follow. Refining and petrochemical
investments are tied to midstream investments, as well as to
other transportation, storage and shipping investments.
Increasing capacities at individual petrochemical facilities add high-paying and,
equally important, long-term jobs that help fuel local
economies and small businesses that, in turn, support the
workers who operate these facilities.
It is an exciting time to be a part of this industry, but
also an opportunity for the many professionals who work in this
industry to educate and remind our fellow consumers about the
positive impacts of the shale energy developments happening in
North America, but also the inter-connected petrochemical value chain that helps
drive much of both the US and world economies, and delivers
products that enrich and enhance daily life.
1 IHS Chemical 2013 World Ethylene
Analysis covers historical developments and future projections for supply, demand,
capacity and trade in the global ethylene and ethylene
derivative markets for 2007 to 2022. www.IHS.com.
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WEIRTON - The Hancock County Sheltered Workshop tries to provide its clients with a mix of vocational, life-skills training and social opportunities, director Michael Hagg told the Weirton Rotary Club on Wednesday.
Hagg told Rotarians the workshop currently serves about 90 mentally handicapped and developmentally disabled individuals, some of whom suffered accidents or illnesses that impacted their condition.
"Whether it's from birth, accident or illness, these are the individuals we serve," Hagg said, adding the workshop's program is "tailored to the individual person."
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ROTARY GUEST — Michael Hagg, director of the Hancock County Sheltered Workshop, explained Wednesday how the program works to members of the Weirton Rotary Club.The facility focuses on life-skills training, in-house work programs and community job placement tailored to the needs of each of the workshop's 90 developmentally disabled or mentally challenged clients. Rotarians are meeting at noon each Wednesday during the month of January at Undo's. - Linda Harris
Hagg said the workshop program includes life-skills training, such as teaching clients how to manage money, cook or balance a checkbook, with an emphasis on helping them integrate into the community. He said clients will, for example, ring the bell for the Salvation Army at Christmas, send cards to American troops or do food drives for the Community Bread Basket and Salvation Army, and they also do trips to Pittsburgh Pirates games, dances, movie nights and even a regional bocci tournament.
In addition to cleaning contracts at area businesses and institutions, Hagg said the workshop operates a commercial laundry that reaches into Western Pennsylvania, Huntington and even Beckley.
He said the laundry competes on quality, not price.
"We could do things cheaper, but that's not putting people to work," he said, pointing out that to maximize efficiency would mean automating certain tasks "and then you're putting people out of work."
Hagg said the agency does community placements when it makes sense for the client.
"We work with businesses in the community, trying to get jobs for our clients," he said.
Hagg said the workshop, which benefits from voter-approved levy funding, "is here to help people with disabilities get jobs, learn how to get jobs (and) provide a social function," he said.
The club meets at noon each Wednesday. This month only, meetings are being held at Undo's Restaurant.


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It would be nice if they fixed there update of ios 5 for Iphone 4 and previous version. My phone is all messed up and its a common problem for many many many people. Tons and tons of people on the net have messed up phones because ios 5 wont install properly on previous I-phones. Nothing like having a phone for 4 months and now its messed up. Hope the Iphone store can fix it tomorrow!
No doubt, from the response, another winner from Apple. I had the first two models if the iphone and they were fine.
Now its the EVO , which I like even better - especially the hotspot. I can wirelessly connect up to 8 devices.
Hey Apple, when you gonna have that ? Or why bother, you got all the fanboys, all the hype promoting the latest incarnation.Hide replies
Mindless sheep. Hipster d-bags all following each other.
I love new toys too but some of you losers need to get lives...Christ.
I'll wait until the fix comes out.
I'm not sure what is broken yet, but we know there is a hidden glitch.
I have talked to 2 people who had trouble with the install and the common thread between them has been not following directions ie. trying to upgrade from 10.5. Just upgraded both of our iPhones and things are working great.Hide replies
I followed the directions to a t. Every time i downloaded the file I got a corrupt file error. Tried this on 3 computers. Then did a manual download went to install that got the same error 3000 something so many others got so went the restore route that so many suggested now I have a non working phone!
2 people do not represent most peoples issues!
Stores opened a 8am...iPhoney 4S obsolete at 8:02am as Apple announced the iPhoney 5 with optional iToaster and urinal app.
If anyone in line was over 25 they should be barred from reproducing.
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To the bashers: Apple is the 2nd largest company in the US, and responsible for 20% of all retail sales earlier this year. Why do you hate America?Hide replies
Apple is America?
Apple is a large company, and their products are generally better than average, but they are just another company.
Steve Jobs was not the Messiah come again to us via AirPort, although he was a shrewd business person. Everyone says he's the reason Apple was anything, but then they forget that NeXt was a utter failure, and that was entirely his brain child.
Just because you wear square glasses, ride a fixie, and live at starbucks, doesn't mean your twice as expensive as a pc macbook browses the internet any different than the rest of us.
What exactly do you think Apple invented?
Mouse/GUI/finger/arrow pointer/etc? Stolen from xerox
OSX? freebsd file system on Mach kernel (carnegie), with X manager.
iPod? knocked off from Diamond Rio
iPhone? Pretty much the same as every other smart phone
I don't have a single Apple product in my home. Am I unamerican?
Isn't pretty much most of Apple's manufacturing done overseas?
Fred.., Simply because some people are not in love with Apple does not mean they hate America. Some people love Apple, some don't. Big deal!! But it appears enough people love Apple products and they have made a pile of money, so why is Apple your poster child for being picked on?
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Engine Failure Analysis - So It Broke, Now What?Written by on August 26, 2011 What can you do when your engine goes kaboom?
In racing, just as in life, eventually bad things are going to happen. It's a lesson most of us learn as kids when that great toy we got for Christmas broke on the 26th.
That's the lesson we learned as kids; the lesson we learn as adults is that sometimes things go wrong and there's nothing you can do about it, but sometimes you can. The fancy word for it is "failure analysis," but it really just comes down to figuring out what went wrong so you can fix it next time. Yes, we like to keep things simple.
With that in mind, we've got a couple of examples of how engine builders attack engine failures to diagnose the problem, or problems, and make sure they don't keep cropping up to bleed your racing budget dry. When repairing or rebuilding a failed race engine, it's also critical to make sure you've identified all the damaged components and either replace or repaire them so that they don't in turn cause a failure of their own.
While working on other projects with KT Engine Development, two broken race engines came in, one right after the other. The first was a Ford Windsor which the owner had bought used on the cheap and brought in for a rebuild—also on the cheap. "When you are trying to rebuild an engine that you don't know the history on, it's difficult," explains owner Ken Troutman. "You have to do a lot of detective work to try to determine how well the engine builder put it together the first time and how long the parts have been in the engine. It seems like everybody who is selling a used race engine will tell you that it has just been rebuilt, but the reality is that's rarely the case.
"When we rebuilt this Windsor," Troutman continues, "we wanted to replace everything we had a question about, but the customer was on a very limited budget. One of the things we specifically questioned was the valves, but the customer said he didn't have the money. Unfortunately, a valve failed pretty early on and now he's got to spend a lot more money to get the motor back together and running.
"I understand that it can be difficult to spend money to replace parts that look like they should be fine, but the upfront cost of doing things right the first time is almost always a lot cheaper than the cost of repairing your mistakes later."
The second broken engine was a motor that came in from a new customer. This engine had never been touched by KT Engines, and the customer was coming to the shop because of previous engine failures at another shop. This one turned out to be a broken connecting rod, but the real cause is just a bit more involved. Let's take a closer look at both.
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Here's a look at the intake and exhaust valves. The ultra-aggressive camshafts used in modern racing engines are quite hard on valves, especially in classes that require relatively heavy stock-sized stainless steel valves. They aren't very expensive, at least compared to a lot of the other stuff in the engine, so it's a good idea to cycle them out relatively regularly.Any time you have engine trouble, take a close look at the contents of the oil pan to see what's made its way to the sump. It's also a good idea to pull the windage tray to make sure you get it absolutely clean before putting it back on the motor.Here's what we pulled out of the oil pan. Luckily, it looks like mostly valve and piston material. There isn't much that looks like bearing material, so the crankshaft may still be OK.One of the benefits of running forged aluminum racing pistons is that they are malleable. Stock cast or hypereutectic pistons can handle large amounts of horsepower under perfect conditions, but they are also quite brittle. In an event like this, a hypereutectic piston would have exploded into a million pieces and there would have been a lot more shrapnel floating through the oil galleries. This looks bad, but it could be worse. Notice the almost perfectly round slug we pulled out of the oil pan that the exposed exhaust valve stem punched through the top of the piston.Some debris from the piston got wedged between the cylinder wall and the side of the connecting rod. This rod is ruined, but the rest are salvageable. Most quality rod manufacturers will sell you a single connecting rod, so this isn't a lost cause.Along the way, the seized valves also put enough pressure on the lifters to kill the cam lobes. The faces of the flat tappet lifters are obviously ground away.Engine builder Ken Troutman had originally hoped to be able to resleeve the damaged block and save it. But after it was torn down he discovered that all eight cylinders had already been sleeved. Since he doesn't know the history of this block, or even what brand or thickness of sleeves had already been used, the decision was made to simply replace the block.Never assume that any component in a broken engine has escaped damage. For example, at KT Engines the teardown of this Windsor included the oil pump where they found damage to the gerotor pump. This pump will probably still function, but the scratches on the lobes will degrade efficiency so it will be replaced.
Troutman had a replacement flat tappet camshaft ground to the same specs, but again, you can never be too careful so take the time to degree in the camshaft again.A new block and bearings means you will need to check the bearing clearances as well as the crankshaft endplay again.If you race a class that doesn't allow any work to the cylinder heads, then the damaged heads would be junk. But KT Engines was able to touch up the combustion chambers to get rid of the sharp edges that would otherwise lead to detonation. You can still see some signs of the previous damage—in order to keep the head legal, KT Engines limited the amount of repair work to the minimum.Back on the dyno, the Windsor had good oil pressure and duplicated the horsepower production from the previous rebuild. It's ready to race.Here's a Chevrolet Limited Late Model that also came through the shop. The broken connecting rod is obvious, and we suspect the cause is a broken rod bolt. A spun bearing can also sometimes be a cause but we doubt that here because there is still some bearing to be found. Usually, a spun bearing burns the bearing away to nothing and then heats the rod until it breaks.When the rod broke, the piston contacted the head pretty severely. Notice the imprint of the edge of the combustion chamber on the bottom portion of the face of the piston. Not only is this piston junk, but we'll need to inspect the cylinder head closely for stress cracks.Unfortunately, although only one cylinder is damaged this block is a lost cause and can't be sleeved. The broken rod has chewed up too much of the bottom of the cylinder bore and the cam tunnel. If you tried to sleeve the block there is little chance the new sleeve would be able to seal against water pressure at the bottom of the cylinder.


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Taxi of Tomorrow Rejected by Court
Judge finds that Taxi and Limousine Commission can't compel cab owners to buy Nissan
The state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday rejected Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Taxi of Tomorrow program as an overreach of executive authority, potentially dooming a project to create a virtually uniform taxi fleet for the city.
The court sided with taxi magnate Evgeny Freidman and the Greater New York Taxi Association, which sued to block the Taxi of Tomorrow on the grounds that the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission lacked the authority to compel most cab owners to purchase the newly designed Nissan NV200.
The decision potentially blocks one of Mr. Bloomberg's most far-reaching reforms of the taxi industry just days before it was to take effect. Nissan is producing NV200 vehicles at its factory in Mexico right now, and the rules requiring that most new taxi vehicles use the Nissan car were to take effect on Oct. 28.
"Simply stated, the power to contract and compel medallion owners to purchase the Nissan NV200 from Nissan for ten years does not exist in the City Charter," Justice Shlomo Hagler wrote in his decision.
The judge also sided with the plaintiffs on a claim that the Taxi of Tomorrow rules violated the separation of powers doctrine — an argument that compared the taxi project to Mr. Bloomberg's effort to limit the serving size of sugary drinks. As a court decided in the sugary drink case, Mr. Bloomberg's regulators were doing policy-setting work that should instead be performed by the City Council, Mr. Hagler ruled.
The city's corporation counsel Michael A. Cardozo said in a statement, "We believe the Court's decision is fundamentally wrong, and we intend to appeal immediately. It was well within the TLC's authority to authorize the Taxi of Tomorrow."
TLC Commissioner David Yassky said in a statement, "Aside from its being by far the safest taxicab ever designed, the NV200 has superior legroom, a panoramic roof and a host of other comforts and amenities; we remain committed to bringing it to the riding public."
Even if the city can appeal and win, time may be too short for Mssrs. Yassky and Bloomberg.
Both Democrat Bill de Blasio and Republican Joseph Lhota, the leading candidates for mayor, have said they have doubts about the project and might be unlikely to defend it in court.
The ruling raises the chances of further litigation, however.
Nissan won the contract to design and build the Taxi of Tomorrow in a competition overseen by the TLC. The carmaker's contract with the TLC would permit it to recoup design and production costs in the event the taxi project is cancelled by the city. Nissan estimated those costs, in a document previously filed with the court, at roughly $50 million, though some familiar with the matter have said the costs could be higher.
The city could seek to dodge those costs if an appeal also goes against the program, a city official said, since Nissan's exclusive deal to manufacture the taxi would have been voided by a court, not a change of heart by the city.
A Nissan spokesman said in a statement that the company is evaluating its next steps. "We are disappointed in the court's decision, but it will not prevent our plan to start upgrading the NYC taxi fleet with the Nissan Taxi of Tomorrow at the end of the month," the statement read.
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Depressed Moms Disrupt Baby's Sleep
April 17, 2012 -- New research provides a unique look at the way a mom's depression can affect her baby's sleep.
Researchers watched hours of video of moms as they took care of their babies at bedtime and throughout the night. They found that moms with greater depressive symptoms were more likely to pick up their sleeping babies -- sometimes waking the infant as a result.
These moms were also more likely to respond to all sounds their babies made -- even those like cooing that don't require any action.
Moms with more depressive symptoms were less likely to engage in calming pre-bedtime rituals and had trouble setting limits during bedtime when compared with moms who were not depressed.
The findings appear online in Child Development.
The study included 45 infants aged 1 month to 2 years. Along with the videotaping, researchers gathered information about moms' depressive symptoms and about their feelings about their babies' sleep. The moms also kept sleep diaries.
"It provides insight into how depression affects parenting at night," says study researcher Douglas M. Teti, PhD. He is a professor of human development and psychology at Pennsylvania State University.
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The cameras started rolling when the parents put their child to bed and continued until the infant woke the following morning. Here's what they recorded:
Moms with greater depression symptoms seemed to be more likely than other moms to seek out babies at night, and wake them up or keep them awake.
"We have no problem with moms wanting to spend time with babies at night. But keeping the child awake is not a good thing," Teti says. "If your baby is sleeping, let your baby sleep."
He suspects that the frequent waking and checking is largely to alleviate a mom's anxieties about her infant's needs and comfort. Mothers who are feeling depressed also may seek out their infants at night for their own emotional comfort.
And the more depressive symptoms the moms reported, the more anxious and worried they appeared to be at night.
When babies don't sleep well at night, it affects how they act in the daytime. Poor sleep also sets the stage for problems in school and behavioral issues.


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Commencement 2013 Highlights
The Juris Doctor degree was conferred on the Class of 2013 graduates at the Friday, May 24, 2013 commencement of Rutgers School of Law–Newark, held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). Acting Dean Ronald Chen '83, carrying the gonfalon, was first in the procession of faculty, university dignitaries, senior campus and law school administrators, and distinguished guests, who were then followed by Associate Dean Andrew Rothman '90 leading the graduates on the three-block walk from the law school's home in the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice to NJPAC.
|Members of the graduating class outside of NJPAC following the ceremony.
Rutgers–Newark Interim Chancellor Philip L. Yeagle presided over the ceremony.
The National Anthem was sung by Carl J. Belfatti, Class of 2013
Greetings and Welcome were delivered by Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. (currently serving as Senior Vice President and University Counsel)
Student Address was given by Daris B. Jackson, Class of 2013
Faculty Address was presented by Taja-Nia Y. Henderson, Assistant Professor of Law
Convocation Address was presented by Vincent Warren '93, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
Presentation of Awards & Prizes was done by Diana Sclar, Associate Professor of Law and Allan Axelrod Scholar
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It's everywhere and expanding exponentially every day. But it might as well be a pile of %#$& unless you can turn all of that data into information. And do so in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. The old-school vendors don't operate in a timely (everything is slow), efficient (everything is over-engineered, over-analyzed, over-staffed, etc) or cost-effective mode (the bloated supertanker needs feeding and the customer gets to pay for those inefficiencies), so that means new technologies and business models will drive innovation which ultimately serves the customers and communities.
Back to Data, Data, Data – Enter open source technologies like Hadoop and Pentaho BI/DI to drive next gen big data analytics to the market. Hadoop and Pentaho have both been around about 5 years, are both driven by very active communities, and have both been experiencing explosive growth over the last 18 months. Our community members are the ones who came up with the original integration points for the two techs, not because it was a fun, science project thing to do but because they had real business pains they were trying to solve. This all started in 2009 – we started development in 09, we launched our beta program in June 2010 (had to cap enrollment in the beta program at 60), launched a Pentaho for Hadoop roadshow (which was oversubscribed) and are now announcing the official release of Pentaho Data Integration and BI Suite for Hadoop.
I'm in NYC today at Hadoop World and we're making four announcements:
- Pentaho for Hadoop – our Pentaho BI Suite and Pentaho Data Integration are now both integrated with Hadoop
- Partnership with Amazon Web Services – Pentaho for Hadoop now supports Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and S3
- Partnership with Cloudera – Pentaho for Hadoop will support certified versions of Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop (CDH)
- Partnership with Impetus – a major Solutions Provider (over 1,000 employees) with a dedicated Large Data Analytics practice.
Consider this as phase I of building out the ecosystem.
We're all about making Hadoop easy and accessible. Now you can take on those mountains of data and turn them into value. Download Pentaho for Hadoop.


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Lose Baby Weight, Celebrity-StyleAD Lynn
Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady stepped out for some exercise-with-infant yesterday—a little hike to take off her baby weight. Oh, wait! She took off the baby weight weeks ago! Just days after birthing Benjamin Brady! Celebs are like that. Why shouldn't the rest of us have the same luck? So, for the benfit of real mothers out there, I offer 5 workout moves inspired by celebrity moms.
1. The Gwyneth Paltrow/Madonna interval-sprint: Put child in Ergo/Bjorn/not-yet-recalled sling. Run to limo. Ride to Airport. Run to Gate. Fly to London. Fly back to New York. Run to baggage claim. Leap into limo. Ride back to Manhattan. Run into townhouse. Repeat.
2. The J.Lo/Marcia Cross Squat: Balance one twin on each hip. Squat until your thighs are parallel to the floor. Stand back up. Repeat until both babies have squirmed out of your grasp and lie crashed on the ground. Not recommended on hardwood floors.
3. The Halle Berry Pat-on-the-Back: First, have good genes. Second, nurture those genes by thanking them every day. Third, watch the weight fall off. Finally, pat self on the back (this move is great for toning shoulder muscles—not that you need it, you miracle of nature).
4. The Sarah Jessica Parker Balance-and-Grace Strengthener. Rummage through closet (this act alone can burn 60 calories in 30 minutes, if done vigorously). Put on stilettos. Grab child. Walk to school. Dodge cameras. Don't fall.
5. The Amy Poehler Fake-Out. Get pregnant again. Fast! No need to lose the baby weight. Or to excise at all, if you ask me. Eat bonbons instead.
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STEUBENVILLE - City Council and administration officials heard proposals on easing traffic congestion on Lovers Lane from two consulting firms Tuesday evening that included construction of a roundabout or a third turning lane at the Lovers Lane and Fort Steuben Drive intersection.
Actual work on the project is not scheduled to start until 2015 but the W.E. Stilson Consulting Group of Columbus and W.E. Quicksall & Associates Inc. of New Philadelphia spent two and a half hours providing city officials with ideas for Phase 1 of the Lovers Lane project.
"This project has been discussed since at least 1987. We advertised for design consulting services and have narrowed the list to these two firms. This will be a two-year design project with construction tentatively scheduled to start in July 2015," explained City Engineer Michael Dolak.
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DISCUSSING THE FUTURE OF LOVERS LANE — Sixth Ward Councilman David Lalich, left, and City Engineer Michael Dolak listened Tuesday evening to a question regarding proposals for the Lovers Land and Fort Steuben Drive intersection project. City officials heard from two design consulting firms regarding options for the intersection. Dolak said actual construction is tentatively set for 2015. -Dave Gossett
"We are considering different alternatives that include doing nothing at all. But we are all in agreement something needs to be done at that intersection. The next alternative is a three-leg roundabout that would provide less starting and stopping in that area, and the final alternative is a third turning lane along with widening Lovers Lane. A roundabout serves to calm traffic by lowering the speed and to keep traffic moving," continued Dolak.
Dolak said the intersection project would cover approximately 700 feet of pavement at the intersection.
"We have between 10,000 to 12,000 cars travel from Sunset Boulevard to the intersection every day. We are also considering construction of a sidewalk along Lovers Lane that would channel foot traffic to the Fort Steuben Mall area. This entire project will take two to three years so we will have to have patience," said Dolak.
"This is a quality- based selection process. We will choose the consulting firm and will then negotiate a price for the services," Dolak added.
According to Kevin J. Grathwol, transportation department manager for the W. E. Stilson Consulting Group, "the beauty of a roundabout is that it will keep traffic flowing, has less maintenance and less electric costs.
"We have learned from a study that 55 percent of the southbound traffic on Lovers Lane is going to the mall. That traffic turns left from Lovers Lane onto Fort Steuben Drive. A second alternative adds a left turn lane but I don't think this plan works as well as the roundabout," Grathwol told the council members.
"Working toward the east side of Lovers Lane could be done with little impact on the local residents," Grathwol noted.
Zack Deems, vice president of W.E. Quicksall & Associates Inc., said the city would have to "sell the idea of a roundabout to area residents. Roundabouts usually meet opposition, but after it is completed a roundabout is accepted by most residents."
"Any job of this type requires good communications with the area residents as well as everyone involved in the project," stated David R. Quicksall, chairman of the New Philadelphia based firm.
Dolak said a city administration committee will determine which consulting company will receive the bid and then will negotiate a fee for the work.
He also said the city is seeking federal funds to pay for the major part of the project.
In other business during the service committee meeting, council members approved a recommendation from City Manager Cathy Davison to renew a 40-year lease with American Electric Power Co. for the West End fire station property.
"The land belongs to the power company but the fire station is ours. The lease is for $1 a year," said Davison.
During a brief sunshine meeting, 3rd Ward Councilman Greg Metcalf proposed legislation to authorize Davison to advertise for bids for the John Scott Highway and Mall Drive improvement projects as well as the University Boulevard and Brady Avenue improvement projects scheduled to begin later this year and be completed next year
Metcalf also introduced an ordinance to advertise for the Steubenville Marina deck project.
The Ohio Department of Transportation agreed to save the pier closest to the Ohio side of the river when the Fort Steuben Bridge was demolished.
Dolak said the state agreed to provide $250,000 in funding the project to trim the pier and construct a pedestrian bridge to an observation deck on the pier.
And, Metcalf introduced a resolution recognizing Catholic Schools Week, set to start Sunday.
Second Ward Councilman Rick Perkins introduced several ordinances from the planning committee, including changes to the city's building fees.
Perkins also proposed an ordinance to reprogram unused Community Development Block Grant funds and legislation authorizing the city manager and Urban Projects Director Chris Petrossi to apply for Clean Ohio funds for an asbestos abatement and demolition project at the former RG Steel plant in Steubenville.
An additional ordinance proposed by Perkins called authorization for the city manager to execute a housing revolving loan fund administration agreement with the Ohio Development Services Agency.
Sixth Ward Councilman David Lalich called for a finance committee meeting to be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in executive session with Mayor Domenick Mucci and Law Director S. Gary Repella. Lalich said the purpose of the meeting is to discuss personnel.
And, 5th Ward Councilman Willie Paul asked for a service committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. prior to the Feb. 5 council meeting to discuss grass cutting and high weeds.
"I want to start talking now in order to prepare for the summer season," said Paul.


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Going Home to Jesus
My friend, John Grange, longtime pastor of St. Jerome's Parish in the South Bronx, died early yesterday morning of cancer.
He was a man of many parts: as comfortable living in a Mexican village as enjoying a concert at Lincoln Center or visitng the Frick Museum; as absorbed in reading Saul Alinsky as Bernard Lonergan.
John was steadfast in friendship, generous with his time and gifts, a sometimes gruff exterior thinly veiling a keen sensitivity and sensibility. In him head and heart joined in fruitful union – but heart always prevailed.
There is a fine tribute-obituary in this morning's New York Times.
The one misstep in the tribute is to identify him as "a disciple of the community organizer Saul Alinsky." John may have learned from Saul, but he was a disciple of Jesus. He told the countless visitors during his last days at Calvary Hospital: "Pray for me – I'm going home to Jesus!"
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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It feels like over the past couple of years the Bronx has lost a lot of the clergy and religious who served our communities with great devotion through very difficult times.
Where Lazarus is poor no longer, may he find eternal rest.
"Et cum Lazaro quondam paupere"--And with Lazarus who once was poor--I love the understatement.
And, yes, God bless and reward John Grange, a great priest.
"In 1992, at a meeting with Cardinal John O'Connor to protest the scheduled closing of St. Jerome's parish school, Father Grange brashly declared: "St. Jerome, pray for us. And pray for Cardinal O'Connor."
"Father Grange had earlier challenged Cardinal Edward M. Egan to save St. Jerome's dilapidated church. In 2001, he packed the audience at a meeting of several Bronx churches with his Mexican parishioners. Cardinal Egan called Father Grange's domination of the meeting "an outrage," but later helped secure the money to give the church, built in 1898, a sparkling renovation."
He stood toe to toe with two monarchs. A pastor who stood up for his people and did not kow tow to the criteria of money.
" One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're right.' If you don't have that, if you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide." Saul Alinsky
- "A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war. It is a war against poverty, misery, delinquency, disease, injustice, hopelessness, despair, and unhappiness...."ibid
Two months before he died Alinsky gave this interview to Playboy:
ALINSKY: ... if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.
PLAYBOY: Why?
ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I've been with the have-nots. Over here, if you're a have-not, you're short of dough. If you're a have-not in hell, you're short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I'll start organizing the have-nots over there.
PLAYBOY: Why them?
ALINSKY: They're my kind of people.
Many clergy spend a lot of time with the "haves." John Grange and Saul Alinsky might be together now.
In 1969 Alinsky was awarded the Pacem in Terris award. He was in very good company.
Well done, good and faithful servant! Enter into your Master's joy. The New York archdiocese presbyterate has a proud history.
My father attended St Jerome parish school in 1900, in a ghetto of working class Irish; I am thankful for the very little education that he had and received there [ just three years] It gave him a life long sense of justice .. He often told of the expression 'O'Brien made all four corners last night' [on Alexander Ave.] This meant O'Brien drank too much at the corner bar, had a fight and was patched up at the drugstore on the east corner,then placed in a cell across the street at the police station, and let out a 7AM to attend Mass at St Jeromes on the fourth corner. .
Ed Gleason
Your father just made my day. What a guy!
Good article and a great man, it seems.
In his final days, his brother Joseph said, more than 1,000 parishioners, mostly Mexican, streamed through his hospital room, forcing the nurses to limit visits to no more than five minutes at a time.
I wish we heard about people to admire before their death.
I hope I will meet him one day after I die.
Reminded of the beauty of the traditional phrasing by Fr. Komonchak's message, I thought of one of my favorite version – Fauré 's. So I turned to the Internet to find a version, and immediately located one on YouTube. It began, as these things do, with a paid advertisement – well, ok, I guess I must because I am not at home and don't have access to my CDs.
The ad – a full 60 seconds! - is for something called "Assassin's Creed", a video game which apparently involves endless and essentially mindless violence associated with pirates, sharks, gunfire and who knows what else.
Talk about cognitive dissonance… Bloody depressing, really. But perhaps Fr. Grange would have shrugged it off, urging me to focus on action, not be so easily discouraged.
Mark L.
Pope Francis wants priests who had a feel for the streets. St Jerome had em in aces.for a long long time.. .
And bless the New York Times for reporting the life of this holy man. (I wonder if it's starting to see that there is interesting stuff besides politics, science, entertainment, cars, and food worth reporting about. Someday it might even have a Religion section.)
I had the pleasure of meeting Fr. Grange on several occasions. He was the real deal. Certainly a pastor who took on the smell of the sheep. I huge loss to the Church here in the Bronx,
The NYTs knew and wrote about the life of Fr. John Grange largely because of one David Gonzalez, who grew up in the Bronx.
David has the photo credit for the head shot photo embedded in the article. Kudos to the Times for hiring David.
The Carmelite priest, Patrick McGuigan, who was pastor here in Bloomingburg and in other places here-abouts for many years, a hippie in appearance, looking like a relic of the '60s--jeans, Beatles haircut, combat boots--had a massive heart attack after early Sunday morning Mass two weeks ago and never recovered. Two thousand people came for his wake in the church, some from his very first assignment in St. Simon Stock in the Bronx. The church was filled to serious overflowing for his funeral, at which the homilist brought down the house by beginning his remarks, "You will want to know: he died with his boots on."
It was very moving to see a priest so loved and honored by his people's thanksgiving and grief.
I remember Sarah Palin's dismissal of community organizers at the 2008 Republican convention:
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."
My first thought was: "What gall." I know community organizers and most are nuns and priests who minister in the poorest parishes here in Philadelphia.
Thank God for their commitment.
I have always loved the phrase "going home to. Jesus."
I love it too.
Last evening I lectured at St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, in their "Year of Faith" lecture series. My topic was "The Christ-centered Vision of Vatican Two." I dedicated the presentation to the memory of John Grange.
In the prepared text I had cited some verses of the poem of Gerard Manley Hopkins, "As Kingfishers Catch Fire:"
for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not hisTo the Father through the features of men's faces.


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Try not to waste your money on stupid favors. If you're going low-budget, make sure the item will be perceived as kitschy, not tacky. If you have a budget that will accommodate elegance, make sure your favors are useful and interesting. There is no point in spending money and time on favors that will be thrown away when the guest gets home.
Party favors should be inexpensive and specific to your party's theme or occasion. Although almost any small, interesting memento will suffice, here are a few suggestions for favors that work:
- Bulk-printed matchbooks with your name and the date of your event although this concept is a standard for wedding receptions and other largescale events, consider these favors for smaller parties, as well. Your guests will find printed matchbooks a surprising favor at a cocktail party, and the cost is less than you might imagine.
- Polaroid pictures taken at the event, and then slipped into preprinted cards; guests pick up the cards on their way out the door.
- Miniature bottles of champagne or airplane-sized liquor (about $2 each), decorated with theme-specific trimming.
- For Girly Parties, little makeup bags filled with hair accessories, inexpensive cosmetics, or nail polish.
- Small boxes of incense (about $2 each), tied with an inexpensive burner (as little as $1).
- For an outdoor or garden party, individual seed packets or flower bulbs wrapped in cheesecloth, with instructions for growing attached.
Creativity counts when it comes to favors, so get those juices flowing and shop closeout stores for unique trinkets. Favors also serve as a memento of your party, reminding guests what a fabulous time they had at your event and possibly prompting them to plan something of their own.
At my wedding, we gave out homemade mixed CDs with songs featured at our reception. After I compiled the playlist, a friend downloaded the songs (free!) and burned them onto a CD. We purchased bulk packages of CDs and inexpensive plastic cases, burned enough copies for each of our guests, and printed out liner notes for very little cost. Many guests said these were the best favors they ever received and we only spent about $50.
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In Polish you can use sic to indicate not only erroneous spelling (uncorrected for editorial reasons), but also to note that the sentence should be as it is when it comes to its meaning (e.g. "The lecturer brought an axolotl (sic!) to the lecture.", "The flight was cancelled because the pilot forgot his lucky dime (sic!)."). Can you do that in English?
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Generally "sic" should be in square brackets, not parenthesis, as an editor's mark. Parenthesis are acceptable, but because square brackets are less often used, the intent is more clearly conveyed. Also, sic should not be italicized nor should a period be placed after it as it is not an abbreviation. (Reference)
Sic is derived from a Latin adverb sīc meaning "so," "thus," or "in such a manner."
I personally would not use sic to indicate unusual or ironic meaning. In the case of the pilot,
The exclamation point conveys the meaning clearly. It's an outcry. Compare to:
The presence of an exclamation point on a statement conveying a usual situation would feel out of place. However, if this were being spoken by someone who was enraged by the canceled flight, the exclamation point could be added to convey emotion and frustration.
In the above cases, punctuation serves to convey the intended meaning by context alone.
That would be an ironic extension of the regular usage of sic. I'd interpret it as "yes, dear reader, surprising as it may be, this is what he did". I have seen it used like this on occasion. It looks a bit silly; I'd never use it myself. There exist several little jokes that are made again and again by journalists because they feel they need to decorate their texts; I'd skip them, unless they are new or actually funny. But perhaps that is just grumpy old Cerberus whining.
I have not answered before, English not being my mother tongue (while in Italian, my language, the usage of "(sic)" described by the OP is quite frequent, to the point that some people don't know its original use, and confuse sic with sigh, as if the author were sighing for the blunder or funny episode he is telling).
So, apparently, Knight's use of "(sic)" is exactly to stress the absurdity of the situation he is relating.
Based on my experience, using sic to draw attention to unusual characteristics of a sentence would be considered unconventional in English. Also highly unconventional would be the use of an exclamation point following sic within the brackets or parenthesis.
I have only ever seen [sic] used to indicate a very obvious problem like a misspelling.
In fact, I cannot think of any appropriate situation for it other than to indicate a misspelling in quoted text.


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Efficacy and Safety of Vanquix for the Management of Selected, Refractory, Patients With Epilepsy Who Require Intermittent Caregiver Medical Intervention to Control Episodes of Acute Repetitive Seizures.
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To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Vanquix for the management of selected, refractory, patients with epilepsy who require intermittent medical intervention provided by caregivers who are not health care professionals, and who are not under the direct supervision of a healthcare professional at the time of administration to control episodes of acute repetitive seizures (ARS).
Epilepsies, Partial
Epilepsy, Complex Partial
Epilepsy, Generalized
Drug: Placebo
Drug: Vanquix Auto-Injector (Diazepam Injection)
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Phase III, Randomized Double-Blind, Parallel, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study, With Optional Open-Label Continuation, of the Safety and Efficacy of Vanquix Auto-Injector (Diazepam Injection) for the Management of Selected, Refractory Patients With Epilepsy Who Require Intermittent Medical Intervention to Control Episodes of Acute Repetitive Seizures
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: autosomal dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent epilepsy
MedlinePlus related topics: Caregivers Epilepsy Seizures
Drug Information available for: DiazepamU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Time to next seizure or rescue beginning at least 15 minutes after and within 12-hours of study drug administration (Vanquix or placebo). [ Time Frame: 15 minutes - 2 hours post dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Number (%) of patients requiring rescue medication after treatment with study drug [ Time Frame: post-dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number (%) of patients requiring emergency room visits after treatment with study drug. [ Time Frame: post-dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Caregiver global evaluations of treatment outcome, based on seizure frequency, severity, and overall outcome compared to previous episodes. The caregiver global evaluation will be rated on a 10 cm visual analog scale (VAS). [ Time Frame: post-dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Physician global evaluations of treatment outcome will be rated on a 10 cm VAS. [ Time Frame: post-dose ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2014
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|December 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Placebo Comparator: 2
Drug: Placebo
Intramuscular autoinjector; vehicle; onset of an episode
|Experimental: 1
Drug: Vanquix Auto-Injector (Diazepam Injection)
Intramuscular autoinjector: 5, 10, 15, or 20 mg (based on subject's age and weight); onset of an episode
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|2 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria for Patient:
- Clinical diagnosis of epilepsy, on a stable antiepileptic drug (AED) regimen for at least 2 weeks, and requires intermittent medical intervention to control episodes of acute repetitive seizures (ARS)
- Experienced at least 2 episodes of ARS in previous year, one of which occurred in previous 6 months
- Has episodes of ARS that include complex partial or generalized seizures
- Has a responsible caregiver available to participate
- Is not pregnant and not lactating and is practicing an acceptable method of birth control
Inclusion Criteria for Caregiver(s):
- Is 18 years of age or older and is responsible
- Is available to accompany the patient to clinic visits
Exclusion Criteria:
- Petit mal status or petit mal variant status
- History of ARS consistently progressing to status epilepticus
- Has history of failure to respond to benzodiazepine treatment
- Hypersensitive to diazepam
- Acute narrow angle glaucoma
- Abuses alcohol and/or other substances
- Took another investigational drug in previous 30 days
- Acute or progressive neurological disease, severe psychiatric disease, or severe mental abnormality
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Keywords provided by Pfizer:
Acute Repetitive Seizures
Cluster Seizures
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Epilepsies, Partial
Epilepsy, Complex Partial
Epilepsy, Generalized
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Adjuvants, Anesthesia
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Gastrointestinal Agents
Hypnotics and Sedatives
Central Nervous System Depressants
Muscle Relaxants, Central
Neuromuscular Agents
Anti-Anxiety Agents
Tranquilizing Agents
Psychotropic Drugs
Anesthetics, Intravenous
Anesthetics, General
GABA Modulators
GABA Agents
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